Data Portability

Data Portability is a movement towards websites, content publishers, content providers, e-commerce retailers and network operators alike providing data about you in open, transparent, free and accessible formats.

DataPortability Project

"The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity."

The DataPortability Project maintains:

You should be able to decide what you do with that data and how it gets used by others
Open Source solutions are preferred to closed source proprietary solutions
Bottom-up distributed solutions are preferred to top down centralized solutions

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Specification

Best Practices for Data Portability (Technical Specs): http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Technical

Standards

Formats

Related Projects

Data Transfer Project

Google, Microsoft, Facebook & Twitter (4 of the big 5) have announced a limited partnership to enable users of one anothers' services to migrate their data between each platform. Details

Data Transfer Project: https://datatransferproject.dev | SRC
Introducing Data Transfer Project -- an open source platform promoting universal data portability
How We Can 'Free' Our Facebook Friends: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180706/13460040185/how-we-can-free-our-facebook-friends.shtml^[2]

Portable Contacts

A project to create a standard for portable contact information of friends, family, co-workers and others we connect to through the world wide web.

Portable Contacts: http://portablecontacts.net/
Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft: http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html

Contact/Friend Importer

Sigma Visual Technologies offers Address Book/Contact/SNS Friend Importer Scripts: http://www.sigmavisual.com/subpages/products/products.html

Resources

Information Commission's Office (ICO) -- Right to data portability: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/right-to-data-portability/
Why is data portability important for web personalization?: http://blog.strands.com/2008/04/14/data-portability-web-personalization/
Towards a Value-Added User Data Economy: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/value-added_user_data.php
PersonalData.io - Legal Access Request templates: https://manual.personaldata.io/requests/ (to help extract your data out of popular Web Services run by the big web/tech companies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc)
Strands (Plug & Play Social Media Recommendation Engine): http://blog.strands.com/2008/06/10/strands-launches-plug-and-play-recommendation-engine-for-ecommerce-and-media/
Google's Data Liberation Front: https://sites.google.com/a/dataliberation.org/www/home

Tutorials

How to download a copy of everything Google knows about you: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/how-to-download-a-copy-of-everything-google-knows-about-you.html
How can I download a copy of my Facebook data?: https://www.facebook.com/help/302796099745838

External Links

wikipedia: Data Portability
Data Portability - official site: http://dataportability.org
The data portability Landscape - An update: http://blog.dataportability.org/index.php/2008/12/the-data-portability-landscape-an-update/
TPG - Facebook’s learnings from consumer outrage feedback over the new site design - Portability, Interoperability, and how Google is furthering Modular Innovation through adoption of Portable Contacts.: http://tpgblog.com/2009/03/27/vc-value-facebook-portable-contacts-google/
Interoperability Principles -- Open Connections, Standards Support, Data Portability: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/default.mspx
Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx
Google ramps up its "data portability as a weapon" push: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-ramps-up-its-data-portability-as-a-weapon-push/57359
Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57415764-93/tim-berners-lee-tell-facebook-google-you-want-your-data-back/
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17589246/data-transfer-project-google-facebook-microsoft-twitter

References

↑ Data Portability Project: http://www.dataportability.org/
↑ Meet Digi.me, a personal data librarian and postman: https://www.politico.eu/article/meet-digi-me-a-personal-data-librarian-and-postman/

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