South Carolina H 4666: Save Our Property Act

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2025-2026 Bill 4666 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 17, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4666

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS 
BY ENACTING THE "DIGITAL CHOICE ACT" BY ADDING CHAPTER 31 TO TITLE 37 SO AS TO 
DEFINE NECESSARY TERMS; TO ESTABLISH LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA 
DATA CONTROL AND COMPETITION; TO ESTABLISH THE FORMAT IN WHICH A SOCIAL MEDIA 
SERVICE MUST PROVIDE A CONSUMER WITH A COPY OF THE CONSUMER'S PERSONAL DATA 
UPON REQUEST; TO REQUIRE A SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY TO IMPLEMENT DATA 
INTEROPERABILITY INTERFACES; TO ESTABLISH REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA SHARING BETWEEN 
SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES; TO PROVIDE CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS 
CHAPTER; AND TO PROVIDE CONSUMERS WITH CERTAIN RIGHTS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Title 37 of the S.C. Code is 
amended by adding:

CHAPTER 31

Digital Choice 
Act

 Section 
37-31-10. As used in this chapter:

 (1) "Administrator" means the officer 
appointed by the Commission on Consumer Affairs to administer this title.

 (2) "Controller" means a person doing 
business in the State who determines the purposes for which and the means by 
which personal data is processed, regardless of whether the person makes the 
determination alone or with others.

 (3) "Department" means the Department 
of Consumer Affairs.

 (4) "Open protocol" means a publicly 
available technical standard that:

 (a) enables interoperability and data 
exchange between social media services by providing a common data 
infrastructure where multiple social media services can access, contribute to, 
and synchronize a user's personal data;

 (b) is free from:

 (i) licensing fees; and

 (ii) patent restrictions; and

 (c) governs how social media services 
communicate and exchange data with each other.

 (5)(a) "Personal data" means information 
that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified individual or an 
identifiable individual. "Personal data" includes a user's social graph.

 (b) "Personal data" does not include 
deidentified data, aggregated data, or publicly available information.

 (6)(a) "Social graph" means data that 
represents a person's connections and interactions within a social media 
service.

 (b) "Social graph" includes:

 (i) the person's social connections 
with other users;

 (ii) content created by the person;

 (iii) the person's responses to other 
users' content, including comments, reactions, and shares;

 (iv) other users' responses to the 
person's content; and

 (v) metadata associated with any of the 
items described above.

 (c) "Social graph" does not include 
another user's or an entity's content and responses that have been designated 
private by those users and entities, including private messages.

 (7) "Social media company" means an 
entity that owns or operates a social media service.

 (8)(a) "Social media service" means a 
public website or application that:

 (i) displays content that is primarily 
generated by account holders and not by the social media company;

 (ii) permits an individual to register 
as an account holder and create a profile that is made visible to the general 
public or a set of other users defined by the account holder;

 (iii) connects account holders to 
allow users to interact socially with each other within the website or 
application; and

 (iv) allows account holders to post 
content viewable by other users.

 (b) "Social media service" does not 
include:

 (i) email;

 (ii) cloud storage; or

 (iii) document viewing, sharing, or 
collaboration services.

 (9) "User" means an individual located 
in the State who accesses or uses a social media service.

 Section 
37-31-20. The General Assembly finds that:

 (1) an individual has a right to 
control and move the individual's own personal data, including social 
interactions online;

 (2) companies have demonstrated a 
pattern of restricting the interoperability of content, preventing users from 
easily sharing posts and interactions across different platforms; and

 (3) the State should ensure that 
individuals have the right to access a complete personal data record from 
social media platforms.

 Section 
37-31-30. If a consumer requests a copy of the 
consumer's personal data pursuant to Section 37-31-70, a social media service 
shall provide the personal data, including the user's social graph, in a format 
that:

 (1) is portable, to the extent 
technically feasible;

 (2) is readily usable, to the extent 
practicable; and

 (3) allows the consumer to transmit the 
data to another controller without impediment if the controller processes the 
data by automated means.

 Section 
37-31-40. (A) A social media 
company shall implement a transparent, third-party-access