Many of our readers should be familiar with Takeout, ostensibly now called `Download your Data,` which allows you to back up a copy of all the information associated with your account for most of Google`s services. Right now you can even use it to transition your Drive storage between providers, but thanks to the upcoming open-source Data Transfer Project—publicized yesterday in a joint effort with Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook—that data may someday be as portable as your phone.
Google actually low-key announced this project all the way back its May 11th GDPR announcement, but at the time it was just a new open-source project in the very early stages that would `in time, be of use to any developer wanting to offer seamless transfer of data from one service directly into an alternative (or vice versa).` Also, the GDPR mandates data portability so Google didn`t have much of a choice—though it could have easily made a minimum, token effort. Read MoreGoogle, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft unite: Data Transfer Project promises portability between services was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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