Subj : Google Takeout update could make transferring photos to iCloud a
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Aug 01 2023 20:15:03

Google Takeout update could make transferring photos to iCloud a breeze

Date:
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:02:52 +0000

Description:
Complying with an Italian competition regulator, Google will let people use 
Takeout to transfer their info to third-parties.

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Starting next year, Google will be making it easier to transfer your user 
information to third-party services using its Takeout export tool. 

This update comes at the tail end of an investigation by the Italian 
Competition Authority (AGCM), a market competition regulator. In total, there 
will be three new changes made to Googles service . Although we dont know 
exactly what the changes will be, the AGCM does mention a few things. Two of 
them will be supplementary solutions to Google Takeout, giving people a way 
to export their information to third-party operators. The third commitment, 
as its referred to, will allow direct data portability from service to 
service. That last one specifically relates to moving data generated from a 
persons Google Search history and YouTube. 

To give some backstory, back in 2022 the AGCM alleged Google had been abusing 
its dominant position in the tech industry to collect large amounts of [user] 
data and putting up obstacles to interoperability in sharing information with 
third parties. One of the complaints said Takeout was extremely complicated 
to use  something they claim was by design as it discourages [people] from 
porting their data elsewhere. In response, Google proposed the three features 
that we mentioned earlier as changes it could make to appease regulators; all 
of which the Authority accepted. Expanding data portability 

Regarding the direct data portability feature, 9to5Google states it sounds a 
lot like the Data Transfer Initiative (formerly known as the Data Transfer 
Project). If you dont know what that is, the Data Transfer Initiative 
consists of Apple, Meta, and Google coming together to expand data 
portability to users. The classic example, as given by 9to5Google, is imagine 
being able to transfer images from Google Photos to iCloud without having to 
manually do anything. The companies handle all the heavy lifting. This could 
preserve precious bandwidth while also being much faster than downloading 
gigabytes of content. 

Its unknown exactly when everything in the Google Takeout update will be 
released, but we wont have to wait long for the direct data portability tool. 
The tech giant told the Authority the feature will officially launch sometime 
during the first quarter of 2024. However, we might see it even sooner as 
third-party platforms can test an early version of the tool six months before 
its actual release. Possibly by October, at the earliest. 

If you dont want to wait until next year for the Google Takeout upgrade, 
check out TechRadars list of the best data migration tools for 2023 .



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/software-services/google-takeout-update-could-ma
ke-transferring-photos-to-icloud-a-breeze


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