one of open threads Undeveloped Thought Undeveloped Thought Privacy Data Portability
tumbling around in the back of the brain, now the back of the exobrain.
gdpr requires data portability, but it also requires you to not violate the date rights of 3rd parties in fulfilling the 2nd party's
data portability is struck strictly in competition and fairness. couched in freedom of movement, but presented as an economic anti-monopoly method.
take facebook, now. their interpretation of current state of global privacy policy, it's basically useless. there's no real portability because they can claim protection under that latter section. the data in profile information is obscured to the point of being machine-illegible, at least they ship a json download now, see what's in there
this is presented as a sort of moral conundrum for facebook, but it's bullshit.
clearview ai and cambridge analytica are being used as arguments for outlawing scraping, for locking down data, and entrenching data hoarders, giant dragon hoards. this is the real thing, unfortunately. it's a lack of real consequence, it's a regulatory capture