Data-Transfer-Project

Could someone either change title to “Facebook joins the Data Transfer Project (2019)”, or change the URL to https://datatransferproject.dev? It’s not about a product or feature of Facebook, it’s about Facebook joining an existing initiative so the title is between confusing and misleading.

I’m curious about the incentives. On one hand, it must be expensive to implement this kind of universal data importer/exporter across your products; on the other hand, this allows your users to switch to a competitor more easily.

I think comments here are missing the point. Integrations are complicated and expensive and this is a small step in making this easier. It competes with the likes of zapier, blendoo and stichdata. The fact that ms, fb, apple and google are doing this is in my opinion more revealing than the current state of this product. Integrations are so painful for enterprise customers that companies could build a significant competitive advantage on this. If this data transfer takes off it could be a serious threat for software vendors that are knowingly hard to integrate like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.

Genius. Open source it so that only the most committed nerds like us would actually use this.

God forbid they actually put a BUTTON somewhere in the actual UI to initiate the transfer. God forbid, people might actually USE THIS.

No build or usage instructions in teh README: https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

All the Documentation is instructions on how to build custom data transfer projects for YOUR service rather than how to actually use it with Facebook and Google Photos: https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

If you want to transfer your FB photos and videos to Google photos without the extra work, just use this tool: https://www.facebook.com/dtp

Can't help but think the impending Antitrust investigations have hastened such initiatives at FB.

I don’t understand. Why would Facebook or Twitter support that? Isn’t it only bringing their monopolies in danger? Could someone explain, please.

GDPR Article 20:

"1. 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, where: [...]

2. In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.

[3. ...]"

It looks like this is not a protocol, but maybe? a Java project with adapters for different services.

I'd call it a step in the right direction, but given that this can live entirely outside of Facebook infrastructure and tied to one language it's a bit hard to see how much weight is put behind this.

I could be misinterpreting what I'm reading though.

Isn't it interesting to see contacts and playlists as the first thing that they mentioned? As far as I can remember, they allowed importing contacts from other providers, and from user's devices from maybe day one.

I want something that brings "events" outside Facebook's walls.

I'm curious what motivates but anyway it's awesome.

This seems like one of the pieces of Skynet taking over the world.