Posted on 07/21/2018 8:25:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Google described the project as letting users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”
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Much of the codebase consists of “adapters” that can translate proprietary APIs into an interoperable transfer, making Instagram data workable for Flickr and vice versa. Between those adapters, engineers have also built a system to encrypt the data in transit, issuing forward-secret keys for each transaction. Notably, that system is focused on one-time transfers rather than the continuous interoperability enabled by many APIs.
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The bulk of the coding so far has been done by Google and Microsoft engineers who have long been tinkering with the idea of a more robust data transfer system. According to Greg Fair, product manager for Google Takeout, the idea arose from a frustration with the available options for managing data after it’s downloaded. Without a clear way to import that same data to a different service, tools like Takeout were only solving half the problem.
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Most platforms already offer some kind of data-download tool, but those tools rarely connect with other services. Europe’s new GDPR legislation requires tools to provide all available data on a given user, which means it’s far more comprehensive than what you’d get from an API. Along with emails or photos, you’ll find thornier data like location history and facial recognition profiles that many users don’t even realize are being collected.
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
ambitious new data project to share your stuff
You WILL be tied into The Matrix.
What happened to anti monopoly laws in this country?
Let me be the first to trust all my data to the cloud. At the same time I shoot myself.
The power of structured data is infininant once it is in a database.
Give them a break. It just make it much easier to sell your data to the highest bidder.
I don’t trust any of these idiots
Screw the cloud
Sounds like collusion to me.
5.56mm
Announcing it means they’ve already been doing it.
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