Data Portability
What is Data Portability?
The right of individuals to receive their personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller. Established under GDPR Article 20.
Terms that appear alongside data portability
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data portability. The number is how many controls name both.
- data subject 33 shared controls
- data subject rights 32 shared controls
- automated decision making 25 shared controls
- consent 24 shared controls
- gdpr 23 shared controls
- right to object 21 shared controls
- profiling 19 shared controls
- right to be forgotten 13 shared controls
Frameworks that govern data portability
What the standards actually require on data portability
Requirements naming data portability across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Where the data subject provided the data with consent or for a contract and processing is automated, they may receive the data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and transmit them to another controller, or have them transmitted directly wh...
albania-law-no-124-2024-on-personal-data-protection::18 · Article 18: data portability →Right to data portability. Control from Bahrain PDPL framework, domain: Bahrain PDPL: Data Subject Rights.
BH-PDPL-09 · Right to data portability →Write into customer agreements what access to data the customer keeps when the contract ends, covering data format, retention period, scope of data retained and the deletion policy.
CCM-IPY-04 · Data Portability Contractual Obligations →Customer agreements must state what access service customers keep to their data when the contract ends, covering the data format, how long the data is kept, which data is retained and offered back, and the deletion policy.
cloud-security-alliance-cloud-controls-matrix-ccm-v4-1::IPY-04 · Data Portability Contractual Obligations →Consumers may obtain a portable, readily usable copy of their personal data (up to twice per year).
COPA-1306-PORTABILITY · Right to Data Portability →Consumers may obtain a portable, readily usable copy of personal data they previously provided.
CTDPA-42-518-PORT · Right to Data Portability →Questions people ask about data portability
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