In 2018, Google, Facebook/Meta, Microsoft and Twitter joined to announce the Data Transfer Project, which worked on tools to help users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without the need to download and reload.” Since then, Apple has signed upwhile other integrated services include Google Photos, Mastodon, and SmugMug, plus the various data transfer and export tools available from the original four companies.
this week google provided an update on their participationpledging $3 million in funding and “hundreds” of engineering hours over the next five years to work on the open source libraries that keep the project going.
The Data Transfer Project is part of the tools you can use to export or transfer data from your Google account, such as Takeout, Facebook link that can send images directly to Google Photosand a similar one for Apple that can move pictures from iCloud to Google Photos.
Google says in its post that, on average, there are “8.2 million exports per month with Google Takeout” and says it will continue to improve the tool with new features and support for transfers to more services.
Whether you’re a developer or just a person who uses major Internet services and has data you’d like to transfer, you can learn more about the project. right here.