Data Portability under the GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) introduces the new right of data portability which provides for data subjects to receive personal data provided by them to a data controller in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another data controller without hindrance. For example, if a customer wants to change banks or phone providers, they can have their current bank or phone provider furnish the pertinent personal data which their new bank or phone provider needs.Download Full Article