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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by dsr_ on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:22PM (#27278810)
There are incentives for, say, Mastodon to be able to ingest your tweeting history, or for Linked-In to eat your Facebook social graph.

There's no incentive other than the law for Twitter or Facebook to make that data exportable.

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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by StopHammoTime on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @11:43PM (#27286019)
That’s why laws exist.

There’s generally no incentive to not kill someone except going to jail.

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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by account42 on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:20AM (#27314048)
> That’s why laws exist.

And we are discussing the law that fixes the lack of incentive of Twitter and Facebook to export the data in this very thread!

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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by anshorei on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:29AM (#27288199)
Ostracization by peers, revenge by members of the victim's family or tribe. Humans generally had reasons not to go out and kill one another long before laws.
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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by selfhoster11 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:15AM (#27289500)
That's literally just a form of law being practiced without being formally codified.
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Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR by brokenmachine on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:44AM (#27287181)
>There’s generally no incentive to not kill someone except going to jail.

I'd let some of you survive.

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