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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. No thanks by Daetrin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm somewhat resigned to the fact that Google knows way too much about me, but at least I can take comfort in the fact that Facebook apparently knows almost nothing about me. I feel zero motivation to just volunteer information to them that they haven't been able to figure out for themselves already.

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  2. Re:EU Antitrust? by kubajz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps it is the other way around. GDPR Article 20 states: "The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided." (emphasis mine)