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Re:Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases by blibble on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:08PM (#28022227)
> GDPR is about privacy and security, not interoperability.

    Article 20 [RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY]

    1.   The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where: ...
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Re:Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases by rcstank on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:46PM (#28023063)
Right, and Amazon is providing the data in a commonly used format.
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Re:Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases by blibble on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:47PM (#28023400)
yes, I'm sure the dump of Amazon's 120 column table (with no details on what those columns are) can be easily imported into other firms software
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Re:Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:22AM (#28025485)
There is no requirement in that law for a specific format, it just has to be something common like csv and not a random EDI file or binary blob with no schema.
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