Google Takeout will get more ways to securely transfer files across different services

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The Data Transfer Project was a collaboration between Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, which worked on tools to transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.

This week, the company provided an update on its participation, promising $3 million in funding and hundreds of hours of work from engineers over the next five years to work on the open-source libraries that keep the project going.

The Data Transfer Project plays a part in tools that you can use to export or transfer data from your Google account, like Takeout, Facebook's link that can ship images directly to Google Photos, and a similar one for Apple that can move images from iCloud to Google Photos.

According to the post, on average, there are 8 million exports per month with the tool, and it will continue to improve it with new features and support for transfers to more services.

You can find out more about the project if you are a developer or a person who uses any major internet services.

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