4 ms·

it took me fighting 6 months with viacom support to get my song plays for last.fm . spotify improved from 2 weeks to 2 days but its still ridiculous to call som

it took me fighting 6 months with viacom support to get my song plays for last.fm . spotify improved from 2 weeks to 2 days but its still ridiculous to call something true data portability that is not automatic and not instant. a lot of companies tried giving me semi obfuscated pdfs or html without classes or classes that were random strings, we need to improve the law to enforce instant availability and an industry standard format like json or xml. also this needs to be completely automatable without having to do it myself.

capableweb 5y ago
> it took me fighting 6 months with viacom support to get my song plays for last.fm Sue them. It should be faster than 30 days according to GDPR. > a lot of companies tried giving me semi obfuscated pdfs or html without classes or classes that were random strings Giving you obfuscated data is also against GDPR as the data needs to be clearly machine-readable. Again, sue them as you now have two points against them.
- ot1138 5y ago
  Sue them under what law or jurisdiction?
- jeroenhd 5y ago
  The GDPR does not give you any way to sue them directly. You can report the company to your country's DPA, which should look into the issue and might take it with the offending party in a court of law. That is assuming that the parent is actually an EU citizen or a foreign citizen living in the EU; if they aren't, the GDPR doesn't apply to them. I see a lot of (mostly non-EU) commenters thinking that the GDPR is grounds for any individual to sue any company for practically anything because privacy is hard, (which is probably why everyone was so hyped to hate on the GDPR) but that's just not how it works. As much as I value data portability, I'd much rather see a DPA sue the hell out of the companies that make those ridiculous, illegal cookie walls and popovers filled with dark patterns instead.

capableweb 5y ago

> it took me fighting 6 months with viacom support to get my song plays for last.fm Sue them. It should be faster than 30 days according to GDPR. > a lot of companies tried giving me semi obfuscated pdfs or html without classes or classes that were random strings Giving you obfuscated data is also against GDPR as the data needs to be clearly machine-readable. Again, sue them as you now have two points against them.

ot1138 5y ago
Sue them under what law or jurisdiction?
jeroenhd 5y ago
The GDPR does not give you any way to sue them directly. You can report the company to your country's DPA, which should look into the issue and might take it with the offending party in a court of law. That is assuming that the parent is actually an EU citizen or a foreign citizen living in the EU; if they aren't, the GDPR doesn't apply to them. I see a lot of (mostly non-EU) commenters thinking that the GDPR is grounds for any individual to sue any company for practically anything because privacy is hard, (which is probably why everyone was so hyped to hate on the GDPR) but that's just not how it works. As much as I value data portability, I'd much rather see a DPA sue the hell out of the companies that make those ridiculous, illegal cookie walls and popovers filled with dark patterns instead.