The Digital Choice Act mandates social media companies and deployers to provide consumers access to their data, with the Attorney General authorized to enforce compliance and adopt specified regulations.
If you operate a social media platform or deploy AI models in California, you must allow users to access their data within five business days or face enforcement actions.
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What This Means
The Digital Choice Act introduces significant requirements for social media companies and AI model operators in California. It mandates transparency in data access and sharing, including interoperability interfaces for social graphs that are third-party-accessible, notify third parties of updates with user permission, allow sharing of contextual data with other AI models as designated by the user, enable third-party access with user permission, and specifically require that a user can share their social graph or user-selected parts of the social graph to a platform designated by the user. Compliance will be essential to avoid potential enforcement actions by the Attorney General, who is authorized to enforce compliance through administrative actions and is authorized to adopt specified regulations.
Key Provisions
- Consumers can request copies of their personal information and contextual data from AI models in a portable format.
- Social media companies and deployers must respond to data requests within five business days, contingent on the format being portable to the extent technically feasible.
- Interoperability interfaces must be implemented by both social media companies and deployers for data sharing with third parties, be transparent, third-party-accessible, notify third parties of updates with user permission, enable a third party to access a social graph created by the user with the user's permission, allow a user to choose to share contextual data directly with other AI models as designated by the user, and specifically require that a user can share a covered user's social graph or user-selected parts of the social graph to a social media platform designated by the user.
- Contextual data is defined as user-provided information and model-generated data.
- Social graph refers to data representing a user's connections on social media.
- The Attorney General is authorized to enforce compliance through administrative actions and is authorized to adopt specified regulations.
Latest Legislative Action
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Bill Sponsors
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Lowenthal | Author |
Compliance Checklist
Who: Social media companies and AI model operators
Penalty: Potential enforcement actions by the Attorney General.
Who: Social media companies and AI model operators
Penalty: Potential enforcement actions by the Attorney General.
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