European Commission, experts uneasy over WP29 data portability interpretation
The European Commission has written to EU privacy regulators to express concern over their interpretation of the data portability clause in the General Data Protection Regulation.
Specifically, the Commission appears to be worried that the regulators have interpreted too broad a scope for the GDPR’s Article 20. The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the group that represents EU privacy regulators, issued guidelines earlier this month in which it said “the right to data portability covers data provided knowingly and actively by the data subject as well as the personal data generated by his or her activity.”
Source: European Commission, experts uneasy over WP29 data portability interpretation
