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Though an important part of privacy, I think this data portability is really useless, for both consumers and businesses. 1. There is no format defined in which
by LeonM 5y ago
Though an important part of privacy, I think this data portability is really useless, for both consumers and businesses.
1. There is no format defined in which the data must be given
2. There is no feasible way of defining such format anyway
3. Thanks to 1 and 2, there is no feasible way of importing this data into another service.
AFAIK, a consumer has the right of requesting the export in any chosen format, but it says nowhere in the GDPR that the data controller must supply this for free [0]. As a business you are allowed to charge a fee to cover the cost of exporting the data, as long as this fee is considered 'reasonable'.
[0] Note: IANAL, a befriended paralegal told me this.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoIf the right exists, tools can be built to exploit it. For example, one could write a tool that ingests Google Takeout data to convert it for other platforms, because the data output exists in a... somewhat... usable form. Presumably, someone wanting to build a service that encourages people to migrate from Google services could build an import tool to their platform with it.
- simpss 5y agodata needs to be provided in a machine readable format. From there, a specific parser/converter needs to be built by the competing service for imports.