Data Transfer Project

The Data Transfer Project (DTP) is an open-source initiative which features data portability between multiple online platforms.[1][2] The project was launched and introduced by Google in July 20, 2018, and has currently partnered with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter,[3][4] and Apple.[5]

Data Transfer Project
Commercial?No
Type of projectData portability
FounderGoogle
Established20 July 2018 (2018-07-20)
StatusActive
Websitedatatransferproject.dev

Background

The project was formed by the Google Data Liberation Front in 2017, hoping to provide a platform that could allow individuals to move their online data between different platforms, without the need of downloading and re-uploading data.[6][3] The ecosystem is achieved by extracting different files through various available APIs released by online platforms and translating such codes so that it could be compatible with other platforms.[7][8]

In July 20, 2018, the joint project was announced. The source code, which has been uploaded to GitHub, was mainly written by Google and Microsoft's engineers.[9]

In July 30, 2019, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, allowing data portability in iCloud.[5]

Implementations

On 2 December 2019, Facebook announced the ability for users to transfer photos and videos to Google Photos, originally available only in a select few countries. This expanded over the following months, and on 4 June 2019 Facebook announced full global availability of this feature.[10]

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Reference
  1. "Facebook, Google and more unite to let you transfer data between apps". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  2. "The Data Transfer Project's big-name support won't matter without the biggest one: Apple". PCWorld. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  3. "Introducing Data Transfer Project: an open source platform promoting universal data portability". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  4. "Data Transfer Project | 9to5Google". 9to5google.com. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  5. Brandom, Russell (2019-07-30). "Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  6. "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project". The Verge. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  7. Rutherford, Sam. "Four of the Biggest Tech Giants Teamed Up to Make Moving Your Data Around Less Painful". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  8. "Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Twitter Introduce the Data Transfer Project: An Open Source Initiative for Consumer Data Portability - EU Policy Blog". EU Policy Blog. 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  9. "Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project". VentureBeat. 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  10. "Driving Innovation in Data Portability With a New Photo Transfer Tool". About Facebook. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
gollark: It makes it easier for corrupt governments to be evil if they have loads of data.
gollark: Great, so now they can discriminate based on $ARBITRARY_THING.
gollark: Or some individual person with access.
gollark: Blackmail you, leak it, use it as a pretext to do something else, who knows.
gollark: It does, because each person with access to your data is another one who might have some incentive to be evil.
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