Google announced a pledge of $3 million and hundreds of hours from its engineers to allow more companies and organisations to participate in the Data Transfer Project (DTP).
The DTP or Data Transfer Project is an open source collaboration between Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and SmugMug to simplify data portability. It aims to allow users to move data safely from one partnering service to the other without downloading to the device and then reuploading.
As Google mentioned in its blog post, the traditional method of transferring data could be challenging for ‘people who don’t have high-speed internet, unlimited mobile data plans, or who don’t have a personal device with extra storage.’
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Another perk of the DTP is that it will be available for any company or organisation that signifies interest and agrees with the terms, which are:
- Put people first
- Require exportability
- Prioritize privacy and security
“[With these in place] even smaller companies that don’t have the engineering resources to build custom data portability solutions can take advantage of DTP’s tools and give people an easy way to bring their data to a new service,” the search engine company further said.
Google’s $3 million pledge will be spread out across the next five years in addition to the hundreds of hours from its engineers. They will be collaborating with other engineers from partners to expand the open source libraries and support more types of data transfer. Google Takeout will be the company’s primary tool for DTP.
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