Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '...
by siimtalvik on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:48AM
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This has changed a bit with GDPR coming into force soon.
When google tried to go push '+' they needed the people to forget about the data, messages, pictures and everything else that was on facebook. That burden was a bit too much.
GDPR requires facebook to provide users with their data in a machine readable format. So that competitors could write migration scripts and there would be no such lock-in. Makes it easy to switch platforms and bring some competition into the space.
When google tried to go push '+' they needed the people to forget about the data, messages, pictures and everything else that was on facebook. That burden was a bit too much.
GDPR requires facebook to provide users with their data in a machine readable format. So that competitors could write migration scripts and there would be no such lock-in. Makes it easy to switch platforms and bring some competition into the space.
Art. 20 GDPR Right to data portability https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/