On April 19, MyData Global has partnered with the Coalition for Online Data Empowerment (CODE) and the Ethical Commerce Alliance (ECA) to send an open letter to the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition, calling for action to enforce the data portability requirements of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The DMA requires gatekeepers (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft) to provide continuous and real-time data portability mechanisms to users. Forty days after the 7th March 2024 deadline for implementation, gatekeepers have not consistently or meaningfully complied with their new legal obligations.
This open letter asks the European Commission to take meaningful action to enforce this requirement and specifically to
- ensure immediate implementation of authorisation for recurring transfers of user data;
- provide robust oversight of implementation and usage of data portability tools; and to
- demand commitment to continuous and real-time portability of user data.
Additional organisations have since added their support to the letter, which will be circulated among media and EU Commission staff in the coming weeks. Organisations are encouraged to add their logo to the letter if they would like to support this effort. please send an email to hello@mydata.org.
Together, we will continue to support the European Commission in monitoring and strengthening compliance with the DMA, especially with requirements that can help to empower individuals with control over their own data.