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What does a privacy regulation have to do with an image file format???

varispeed 6y ago
GDPR requires companies to make moving personal data from one service to another easy. I understand that your files created in a program are your personal data, so it should be possible to make it compatible with other applications - this will also help with tackling walled gardens and anti-competitive behaviours. Given how many people downvoted my comment, I find it baffling, like you don't want to be able to have your personal data in an accessible format?
- tristanperry 6y ago
  > I understand that your files created in a program are your personal data Do you have a source for that? I'm not saying it's not (hence my question), but how would opening Photoshop, drawing a line, then saying this as a PSD count as personal data?
  - varispeed 6y ago
    What would otherwise be the point of data portability? It's not exactly difficult to move your name, email address and IP to another provider, so why add legislation just for these things? There is a definition from the ICO site: “‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”. So for example if you draw a line in Photoshop and by the way you drawn it someone can tell it was definitely you, then this is personal data. If you compose music and through its style it can be said that this is definitely something you made, this is also personal data and so on. That's why when you request data download for example from Facebook you get everything, not just your name, email and list of IP addresses you logged in from.

GDPR requires companies to make moving personal data from one service to another easy. I understand that your files created in a program are your personal data, so it should be possible to make it compatible with other applications - this will also help with tackling walled gardens and anti-competitive behaviours. Given how many people downvoted my comment, I find it baffling, like you don't want to be able to have your personal data in an accessible format?

tristanperry 6y ago
> I understand that your files created in a program are your personal data Do you have a source for that? I'm not saying it's not (hence my question), but how would opening Photoshop, drawing a line, then saying this as a PSD count as personal data?
- varispeed 6y ago
  What would otherwise be the point of data portability? It's not exactly difficult to move your name, email address and IP to another provider, so why add legislation just for these things? There is a definition from the ICO site: “‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”. So for example if you draw a line in Photoshop and by the way you drawn it someone can tell it was definitely you, then this is personal data. If you compose music and through its style it can be said that this is definitely something you made, this is also personal data and so on. That's why when you request data download for example from Facebook you get everything, not just your name, email and list of IP addresses you logged in from.