T - he New Portability - Designing Portability with Competition in Mind

For example, the GDPR’s  broad rights to deletion and privacy can in some cases severely limit the data available to  competitors (more later on how to mitigate this while protecting consumer privacy.) The CCPA  14   “The  ability  of   two  or   more  systems  or  applications  to  exchange  information  and  to  mutually  use  the  information  that  has  been  exchanged.”  Int’l  Standards  Org. [...] Code § 1798.130.  20   Personal  Data  Protection  Committee  Singapore,  R esponse   to   Feedback   on   the   Public   Consultation  on   Proposed  Data  Portability  and  Data  Innovation  Provisions  1,  5  (Jan.  20,  2020),  k-for-3rd-Public-Consultation-on-Data-Portability-Innovation-200120. [...]   Since   then,   at   least   one   company  has  released  a  tool  to  allow  consumers  to  compare  prices  between  banks.24   It  is  too  early to tell how effective the program has been for improving competition.  Unique Identifiers  In  a  series  of  interviews  about  data  portability  that  Michael  Weinberg  and  I  conducted  with  technologists,  interviewees  repeatedly  said  th. [...] Scholars  have  noted  that  these  direct  transfer  laws  are  vague  in   their   definitions  of   the   term   “direct”,3 6  and  case  law  has  done  little  to  clarify.3 7  As  a  result,  few  software  services  allow  direct   transfers  in  a  way  that  meaningfully  lowers  switching  costs  further.  None  of  the  seven  software  services  I  researched  seems  to  offer  any  me. [...]  Thus,   regulations  and  guidelines  specifying  that  those  systems  should  be  designed  for  more  effective  data  portability  are  necessary.  By  focusing  on  ease  of  transfer  and  utility  to  competitors,  the  FTC  can  use  data   portability  to   help   do   what   it   does   best   —  protect   consumers   from   anti-competitive behavior and encourage American innovation. .