Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter Launch the Data Transfer Project (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:40AM from the uniting-for-once-in-life dept.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter have teamed up for a new open source project that strives to make it easier to transfer your data between online services. From a report: The Data Transfer Project (DTP) was officially founded last year, and there have been whisperings about it on the likes of GitHub, but the initiative was officially unveiled today with its first four members. The DTP is actively seeking other members too. The ultimate aim of the Data Transfer Project is to improve data portability, allowing users to not only download their data but transfer it directly to any other service.

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Re: First, we just need to agree on all the standa by Anonymous Coward · 2018-07-20 02:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Can I delete my data, like my porn hub account data? Not that I'd have any reason to want to get rid of that, or even an account, haha.
Re: First, we just need to agree on all the standa by Anonymous Coward · 2018-07-20 03:04 · Score: 4, Funny

I'd be more willing to admit to having a PornHub account than a Facebook account.