The Google Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose "goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products." The team, which consults with other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" Google products, currently supports 57 products. The purpose of the Data Liberation Front is to ensure that data can be migrated from Google once an individual or company stops using their services or the service is discontinued by Google .
7-492: Google Takeout , also known as Download Your Data , is a project by the Google Data Liberation Front that allows users of Google products , such as YouTube and Gmail , to export their data to a downloadable archive file . Users can select different services from the list of options provided. As of 24 March 2016, the services that can be exported are as follows: The user can select to export all of
14-593: A Takeout export until it expires after 7 days. Google Takeout has also been criticized for keeping the takeout data available for too short a time for many users with large files to easily download everything before the batch expires (after 7 days), in essence "trapping" users with large data and slow bandwidth in Google's services. Earlier criticisms were raised that Google Takeout did not allow users to export from some core Google services, most notably Google Search history and Google Wallet details. Google has since expanded
21-487: A separate folder for each service that was selected for export. Google Takeout was created by the Google Data Liberation Front on June 28, 2011 to allow users to export their data from most of Google's services. Since its creation, Google has added several more services to Takeout due to popular demand from users. Takeout started with exports of only Google Buzz, Google Contacts, Google Profile, Google Streams, and Picasa Albums. The next month, on July 15, 2011, Google added
28-421: The available services or choose services from the above list. Takeout will then prompt the user to select file type, frequency, and destination, and proceed to process the request and put all the files into an archive file. Takeout additionally sends an email notification when the export is completed, at which point the user can download the archive from the downloads section of the website. The archive file contains
35-418: The export of Google +1's to the list after it was frequently requested by Takeout's users. Later in 2011 on September 6, Google added Google Voice to their export service. A big milestone was the addition of YouTube video exports to Takeout next year on September 26, 2012. Google took another big step with the addition of Blogger posts and Google+ pages on February 17, 2013. On December 5, 2013, Google Takeout
42-524: The service to include search history and Wallet details (September 2016). Google has also added Google Hangouts to the Takeout service. Google Data Liberation Front On June 28, 2011, Google's Data Liberation Front engineering team released their first product, after 4 years in development, called Google Takeout, which allows a Google user to export data from supported services. On July 20, 2018, Google's Data Liberation Front engineering team announced
49-401: Was further expanded to include Gmail and Google Calendar data. They have added specialized transfer capabilities for Google Photos, allowing transfer of all media from Google Photos to Apple – iCloud Photos, Flickr, Microsoft One Drive and SmugMug. Google does not delete user data automatically after exporting; they provide a separate service to perform deletion. There is no way to delete
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