A controller answers a data-portability request by sending only an unreadable screenshot PDF of a GUI. What format expectation does that response fail when portability applies?
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Short Explanation
A screenshot PDF of a GUI is like handing someone a photo of a spreadsheet instead of the spreadsheet file—they can squint at it, but they cannot really move or reuse it. Portability wants structured, commonly used, machine-readable data. Pretty pictures of screens do not cut it.
Full Explanation
Where the right to data portability applies, Article 20 entitles the data subject to receive personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller. An unreadable screenshot PDF of a graphical interface typically fails that format expectation because it is not designed for automated reuse or clean transmission. Visibility to a human eye alone is not the portability standard.