Id like to also highlight the need to preserve personal and business data stored in a variety of SaaS services. Google export is a great example of a large provider doing the right thing. I wish most smaller SaaS companies were similar.
Specifically, I've been recently looking for accounting software for Polish VAT accounting.
I'd much prefer standalone software rather than SaaS, but I found none. Only SaaS offerings. Of a dozen of them only one has a public API one can use to export data(if one writes exporting software). None have ability to export all data in a simple format in one go.
Why does it matter? Accounting records, buy/sell invoices, expense documents etc gathered over years and decades can be very valuable.
Personally, despite being against over regulation in general, I think there should be some law that required SaaS companies to provide reasonable data export capability. GDPR already gives people an ability to request all data another entity has on them, but making it an essential part of the service that could be used regularly (as a backup of sorts) would be much better.
Specifically, I've been recently looking for accounting software for Polish VAT accounting.
I'd much prefer standalone software rather than SaaS, but I found none. Only SaaS offerings. Of a dozen of them only one has a public API one can use to export data(if one writes exporting software). None have ability to export all data in a simple format in one go.
Why does it matter? Accounting records, buy/sell invoices, expense documents etc gathered over years and decades can be very valuable.
Personally, despite being against over regulation in general, I think there should be some law that required SaaS companies to provide reasonable data export capability. GDPR already gives people an ability to request all data another entity has on them, but making it an essential part of the service that could be used regularly (as a backup of sorts) would be much better.