The Google Data Liberation Front is an
engineering
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team at
Google
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whose "goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products."
The team, which consults with other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" Google products, currently supports 57 products. The purpose of the Data Liberation Front is to ensure that data can be migrated from Google once an individual or company stops using their services or the service is
discontinued by Google.
Google Takeout
On June 28, 2011, Google's Data Liberation Front engineering team released their first product, after 4 years in development, called
Google Takeout, which allows a Google user to export data from supported services.
Data Transfer Project
On July 20, 2018, Google's Data Liberation Front engineering team announced the Data Transfer Project in partnership with
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...
,
Microsoft
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, and
Twitter (now X), an ecosystem which features
data portability
Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data back ...
between multiple online platforms without the need of downloading and re-uploading data.
See also
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Data portability
Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data back ...
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Data migration
Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another. Additionally, the validation of migrated data for completeness and the decommi ...
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Vendor lock-in
In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lockin, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.
The use of open standards and alternati ...
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GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), abbreviated GDPR, is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of ...
References
External links
HomepageOfficial Data Liberation Blog
Data Liberation Front
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