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GDPR Article 20: "1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in
by flipbrad 6y ago
GDPR Article 20:
"1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where: [...]
2. In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.
[3. ...]"
- dane-pgp 6y agoI wonder if an EU court or anti-trust investigation might determine that this right should allow for continuous data transfer between accounts, rather than one-off transfers. In theory, anything you post on Mastodon could be automatically cross-posted on your Facebook page, so that your Facebook friends don't need a Fediverse account and you don't ever need to visit Facebook. The difficult part is that you really want to be able to see replies from your Facebook friends, and Facebook will argue that these replies are "personal data" belonging to those friends, not to you, so you can't ask for them to be exported.