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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/passport/service-providers",
 "title": "DPP service providers: who is allowed to hold your passport data, and what they may do with it",
 "description": "The DPP framework makes you keep a product passport backup with a service provider and limits what it may do with your data, unless you agree otherwise.",
 "territory": "dpp",
 "category": null,
 "direct_answer": "Four provisions decide this, and reading them together produces a different picture from reading any one of them.",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
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 "datePublished": "2026-08-28",
 "dateModified": "2026-08-28",
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#delegated-act",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#digital-product-passport",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#dpp-service-provider",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#economic-operator",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#espr",
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#implementing-act"
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  {
   "state": "operator declares",
   "point": "The clause constituting specific agreement",
   "because": "The restriction on reusing your passport data is expressly subject to specific agreement, so the protection you have is the one in your contract."
  }
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