How portable is portable? Exercising the GDPR's Right to Data Portability

Janis Wong; Tristan Henderson

doi:10.1145/3267305.3274152

How portable is portable? Exercising the GDPR's Right to Data Portability

Janis Wong, Tristan Henderson

School of Computer Science

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The new European General Data Protection Regulation has introduced several new rights designed to empower users and regulate imbalances of power between those who collect and control data and those to whom the data refer. In this paper we focus on one particular right, the right to data portability, and examine how it is being implemented. We discuss the responses to 230 real-world data portability requests, and examine the file formats returned and difficulties in making and interpreting requests. We find variation in file formats, not all of which meet the GDPR requirements, and confusion amongst data controllers about the various GDPR rights.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers
Publisher	ACM
Pages	911-920
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359665
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3274152
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2018
Event	Fourth International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing (IoT) - , Singapore Duration: 8 Oct 2018 → 8 Oct 2018 Conference number: 4 http://www.claw-workshop.org/

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Workshop	Fourth International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing (IoT)
Abbreviated title	CLaw
Country/Territory	Singapore
Period	8/10/18 → 8/10/18
Internet address	http://www.claw-workshop.org/

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Data protection
GDPR
Right to data portability

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Wong, J & Henderson, T 2018, How portable is portable? Exercising the GDPR's Right to Data Portability. in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers . ACM, pp. 911-920, Fourth International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing (IoT), Singapore, 8/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3274152

How portable is portable? Exercising the GDPR's Right to Data Portability. / Wong, Janis; Henderson, Tristan.
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers . ACM, 2018. p. 911-920.

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