Internet related News · 2018-07-21

Digital giants to collaborate on consumer data transfer project – News

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Google, along with MicrosoftTwitter, & Facebook have taken data portability a step ahead by announcing the ‘Data Transfer Project’, an open source initiative dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download & re-upload it.

The Google OpenSource team said on its official blog that in ‘Download Your Data’, users can already do this; they can transfer their information directly to their Dropbox, Box, MS OneDrive, & Google Drive accounts today. With this step forward, Google will be working with these companies to bring this type of functionality to individuals across the Web.

It was way back in 2007, a small group of engineers in Google’s Chicago office had formed the Data Liberation Front, a team that believed consumers should have better tools to put their data where they want, when they want, & even move it to a different service. This idea, called “data portability,” gives people greater control of their information.

In 2011, Google launched ‘Takeout’, a new way for Google users to download or transfer a copy of the data they store or create in a variety of industry-standard formats.

Since then, we’ve continued to invest in Takeout—we now call it Download Your Data—and today, our users can download a machine-readable copy of the data they have stored in 50+ Google products, with more on the way.


 

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