Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gave consumers in the European Union the right to port their personal data between digital service providers. We critically assess the economic implications of this new right in the light of the extant economic literature and with a focus on competition and innovation in the digital platform economy. In particular, we conclude that observed user behaviour data should clearly fall under the scope of data portability and that, above and beyond the regulations set out under GDPR, a right to port personal data continuously and in real-time would be necessary to truly empower consumers in the context of the digital platform economy. We also discuss the economics of Personal Information Management Systems (PIMSs), which many policymakers see as an essential tool for consumers in an economy where data portability becomes more widespread. However, we are sceptical that PIMS will be self-sustainable and instead advocate to facilitate the development of open-source projects, which have made little progress so far due to a lack of interfaces (which would come about with a right to continuous data portability) and due to a lack of common standards.

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平台经济中的个人数据可移植性：经济影响和政策建议

《通用数据保护条例》(GDPR) 第 20 条赋予欧盟消费者在数字服务提供商之间移植其个人数据的权利。我们根据现有的经济文献，并重点关注数字平台经济中的竞争和创新，批判性地评估了这项新权利的经济影响。特别是，我们得出的结论是，观察到的用户行为数据显然应该属于数据可移植性的范围，并且，在 GDPR 规定的规定之外，持续、实时地移植个人数据的权利对于真正赋予权力是必要的。数字平台经济背景下的消费者。我们还讨论了个人信息管理系统 (PIMS) 的经济学，在数据可移植性变得更加普遍的经济体中，许多政策制定者将其视为消费者的重要工具。然而，我们怀疑 PIMS 是否能够自我维持，而是提倡促进开源项目的开发，由于缺乏接口（这将带来持续数据可移植性的权利），迄今为止进展甚微。 ) 并且由于缺乏通用标准。