Data portability
Data portability is the ability to transfer data between systems or entities in a usable format, and may include a right to receive and transmit personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Data for All
The characteristic of data that allows it to be transferred or moved between locations, systems, or entities.
- How it is used
- Frames data portability as a way for people and businesses to move data away from major digital platforms.
- How deep it goes
- Explains legal rights and continuous transfers in plain language, without technical implementation steps.
- Examples
- Compares moving digital data with taking a mobile phone number to another carrier.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand how portability can affect choices about moving and sharing data between companies.
Introduction to Generative AI, Second Edition
The right to data portability is a data-protection right to receive personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and transmit it elsewhere.
- How it is used
- Frames portability as a GDPR privacy right that gives individuals control over personal data held by organizations.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the right and places it within GDPR’s rights framework, but does not detail request procedures or technical transfer mechanisms.
- Examples
- Uses the GDPR, Brazil’s LGPD, China’s PIPL, and contrasting United States privacy approaches as legal examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate portability as part of broader privacy compliance across differing national legal regimes.
Read how Introduction to Generative AI, Second Edition explains data portability →
Related concepts
- Digital Markets Actconfigured by · The Digital Markets Act is a European Union regulation imposing obligations on designated gatekeepers to promote fair and contestable digital markets.
- compliancepart of · Compliance is conformity with applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, policy, or other governing requirements.
- portabilitykind of · Portability is the ability to transfer or use software, information, or methods across environments or domains with limited adaptation while retaining useful function or structure.
- Data Actconfigured by · The Data Act is a European Union regulation establishing harmonized rules for access to and use of data, including data generated by connected products and services.
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