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Regulation (EU) 2016/679 · OJ L 119, 4.5.2016
1. The controller shall take appropriate measures to provide any information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 and any communication under Articles 15 to 22 and 34 relating to processing to the data subject in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.
2. The controller shall facilitate the exercise of data subject rights under Articles 15 to 22.
3. The controller shall provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to the data subject without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.
4. If the controller does not take action on the request of the data subject, the controller shall inform the data subject without delay and at the latest within one month of receipt of the request of the reasons for not taking action and on the possibility of lodging a com-
plaint with a supervisory authority and seeking a judicial remedy.
L 119/40
What you see above: pages 39 and 40 of the GDPR PDF, as they come out of the converter. The two Official Journal columns become one, numbered paragraphs keep their number even when they continue on the next page, and words the original split with a hyphen the PDF does not even carry are joined. The text is trimmed to fit; nothing else is.
The original page is still there. Switch whenever you want.
What it is for
It is not only for statutes. What changes between a 90-page regulation, a 40-page judgment and a 600-page study guide is how you move around; everything else works the same.
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How long does the controller have to answer a data subject's request?
One month from receipt of the request, extendable by two further months where necessary given the complexity and number of requests, with notice of the extension within the first month. If the controller does not act on the request, it must inform the data subject without delay and at the latest within one month of the reasons, and of the possibility of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority or seeking a judicial remedy.
“The controller shall provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to the data subject without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.”
“If the controller does not take action on the request of the data subject, the controller shall inform the data subject without delay and at the latest within one month of receipt of the request of the reasons for not taking action and on the possibility of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority and seeking a judicial remedy.”
3. The controller shall provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to the data subject without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. 4. If the controller does not take action on the request of the data subject, the controller shall inform the data subject without delay and at the latest within one month of receipt of the request of the reasons for not taking action and on the possibility of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority and seeking a judicial remedy.
What it does not do
With this audience, overpromising is expensive. This is what Marginalia is not and what it does not do well yet with statutes and judgments.
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What it is tested with
The converter is tested with public-domain legal texts, and the reading order is compared with the text published on the official website. With the index of articles rebuilt in all of them.
If your PDF comes from another layout and comes out wrong, send it: every new layout goes into the tests.
Questions
Trust the citation, not the answer. The AI answers with the document in front of it and can still be wrong; that is why every claim carries the paragraph and the page, and one tap opens the text as written. If something is not in the document, it says so.
Yes, those are the layouts it is tested with. Where the PDF carries no outline, the index of articles is rebuilt from the headings.
If the PDF has a text layer, yes. If it is a scan without OCR, it reads in its original view but cannot be reflowed or asked about. It tells you when you open it.
To read it, yes: the PDF does not leave the browser. When you ask, the question travels with the passages needed to answer it, so with a document carrying client data it is better not to ask, or to anonymise it first.
It is good for studying from the materials and the statute: with an index, highlights, notes and questions to the text. It is not a question bank or an exam simulator.
Nothing. Reading needs no account; asking does, and it is free with a daily and monthly cap that covers a study session with the materials. If that ever changes, it will be said here first.
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