Bringing Your Data Everywhere in the Internet of (Every) Thing: A Legal Reading of the New Right to Portability
Camilla Bistolfi, Lucio Scudiero · 2016
The General Data Protection Regulation introduces a brand new right to data portability that should enable the data subject "to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the data have been provided". This brief paper enucleates the legal and technical limitations to this new right: without standards which lead to interoperability the right to data portability is destined to remain more a declaration of principle than a real and effective tool for individual self-determination in the digital environment.