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by blibble 1782 days ago
> GDPR is about privacy and security, not interoperability.

    Article 20 [RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY]

    1.   The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where: ...
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Right, and Amazon is providing the data in a commonly used format.
yes, I'm sure the dump of Amazon's 120 column table (with no details on what those columns are) can be easily imported into other firms software
There is no requirement in that law for a specific format, it just has to be something common like csv and not a random EDI file or binary blob with no schema.