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Reading the first paragraph I was wondering if the data portability right (part of GDPR) might be helpful, and then you went on to say "Bonus points if companie

by lucb1e 5y ago

Reading the first paragraph I was wondering if the data portability right (part of GDPR) might be helpful, and then you went on to say "Bonus points if companies are also required to allow users to import data in those formats". Dude, that is exactly what GDPR requires! You are describing article 20 literally :). I'm not sure about ecommerce, no idea why I'd want to import invoices into another web shop, but > Article 20 \n Right to data portability \n 1. The data subject [you] shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to [the company], in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679#d1e2753-1-1 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

notpachet 5y ago
Right, but for the average user, it's not really feasible for them to receive a megabytes-large CSV of data in whatever format Amazon decides to provide, and then transform that into the necessary format for import into <Etsy/Ebay/Shopify>. We could make tools to do so, but then Amazon could just change what format they use for export, so we'd need to update the tools... Regarding importing: you as a user have the right to provide your downloaded data to a different party, but there's nothing in GDPR that says that party must offer the necessary import capability.
- lucb1e 5y ago
  > it's not really feasible for them to receive a megabytes-large CSV of data in whatever format Amazon decides to provide, and then transform that into the necessary format okay yeah you're still describing Article 20: > the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible

by lucb1e 5y ago

notpachet 5y ago

Right, but for the average user, it's not really feasible for them to receive a megabytes-large CSV of data in whatever format Amazon decides to provide, and then transform that into the necessary format for import into <Etsy/Ebay/Shopify>. We could make tools to do so, but then Amazon could just change what format they use for export, so we'd need to update the tools... Regarding importing: you as a user have the right to provide your downloaded data to a different party, but there's nothing in GDPR that says that party must offer the necessary import capability.

lucb1e 5y ago
> it's not really feasible for them to receive a megabytes-large CSV of data in whatever format Amazon decides to provide, and then transform that into the necessary format okay yeah you're still describing Article 20: > the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible