Data Transfer Project News Today

Next year, Takeout will play nicer with third-party platforms

Italy's competition authority has settled a probe of Google focused on data portability after accepting commitments from the tech giant.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that the company is funding research into a decentralized social networking protocol under the name Bluesky, offering a solution to moderation problems and other issues.

Posts about data portability written by Leigh Beadon and Techdirt

Data portability is an important front in the war for an open internet. A few years ago, it seemed like some major movement was coming, with the joint announcement of the Data Transfer Project from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter — but recently, news of any progress was running thin. That is, until now: the…

The issue of open source and decentralization has never been far off the agenda since Elon Musk bid to buy Twitter in early 2022.

Italy’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Google over concerns it has abused a dominant position by hindering data portability rights which are afforded to individuals under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The procedure follows a complaint made to the authority by the operator of a direct marketing platform called Weople. […]

Amazon took out an ad to allege that the transfer of Future Retail's assets is being carried out clandestinely by committing fraud.

Google has announced to provide $3 million over the next five years, as well as hundreds of hours of its engineers time, for the for the Data Transfer Project.In 2018, Google, Facebook (now Meta), Microsoft and Twitter collaborated to announce ...

Google has committed $3m to expand the Data Transfer Project which it launched in collaboration with other tech giants.