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Would potentially be useful if you could take advantage of this _after_ you've been excommunicated from a service for whatever unknowable violation you committed.

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Presumably, compliance with this standard would enable the "here's your shit" part of "here's your shit, now get out." for your "excommunication".

That's what Coinbase does.

Not quite. If you never gave them ID back in the day, you can’t get out any more.

So give them your ID.

That should be in the digital bill of rights.

It's in the GDPR - right to data portability (and associated sections). I guess that's as close to a data bill of rights as we have right now.

I'm curious... has anyone drafted a digital bill of rights? If not, maybe someone should in order to get the ball rolling.

I've wanted one for the better part of a decade. It would be great to have something like the first-sale doctrine for digital goods, some method of eliminating phone-home DRM when a business shuts down or service is discontinued, etc.

GDPR, as a side effect, entitles users to get a copy or their data after a ban, as long as the service has not already deleted the data.

But it could be a pdf?

GDPR says it must be machine readable:

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

DTP tackles Article 20 of GDPR

And just below this article is currently another saying how companies don’t really give a proper damn about GDPR.

Would you be able to trust GDPR to actually return “useful” data?

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