To further strengthen the control over his or her own data, where the processing of personal data is carried out by automated means, the data subject should also be allowed to receive personal data concerning him or her which he or she has provided to a controller in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable and interoperable format, and to transmit it to another controller.
Ionas go gcuirfear neart tuilleadh leis an smacht a bhíonn ag ábhar sonraí ar a chuid nó a cuid sonraí féin, i gcás go ndéantar na sonraí pearsanta a phróiseáil ar bhealach uathoibrithe, ba cheart a cheadú freisin don ábhar sonraí na sonraí pearsanta a bhaineann leis nó léi agus a chuir sé nó sí ar fáil do rialaitheoir i bhformáid atá struchtúrtha, a úsáidtear go coiteann, atá inléite ag meaisín agus atá idir-inoibritheach a fháil, agus iad a tharchur chuig rialaitheoir eile.