2018白小姐美女图生肖: New Facebook tool lets you export pictures and videos to Google Photos

by Daniel Petrov / Dec 02, 2019, 9:19 AM

New Facebook tool lets you export pictures and videos to Google Photos

Say what you will about big pan-European government corroding civil liberties or some such, but when it comes to applying pressure on the Silicon Valley giants to change their ways, there is nobody like it.

Google and Apple already felt the wrath of European regulators for their monopolistic and tax evasive practices, and started changing their ways. Now is the time for Facebook to shine by moving faster with its personal data export mandate.

The social giant posted a buff PR piece that says it is building on the decade-old project to allow users offloading of their information from Facebook, whether because they decided to close their account, or for backup purposes.

Now, however, Facebook is building on "the principle of data portability, which gives people control and choice while also encouraging innovation." Yeah, alright, never mind the regulatory scrutiny and oversight pressure, all is well when it ends well for consumers, or their posted Facebook media, for that matter.

Starting in Ireland, Facebook will be offering a free tool for exporting your pictures and videos to Google Photos, "based on code developed through our participation in the open-source Data Transfer Project." Facebook will be rolling the photos export tool to more countries in 2020, and will likely be developing a similar tool for extracting your content to Apple's platforms, too, given that Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter are all part of the Data Transfer Project.

Sign of the times, and the press release does say that Facebook hopes the other signatories will follow suit:

We want to build practical portability solutions people can trust and use effectively. To foster that trust, people and online services need clear rules about what kinds of data should be portable and who is responsible for protecting that data as it moves to different services. We hope this product can help advance conversations on the privacy questions we identified in our white paper. We know we can’t do this alone, so we encourage other companies to join the Data Transfer Project to expand options for people and continue to push data portability innovation forward.

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1. DBozz

Posts: 114; Member since: Sep 19, 2019

On the way it clones all ur pictures also share it to our lovely world

posted on Dec 02, 2019, 11:35 AM 1

2. JCASS889

Posts: 609; Member since: May 18, 2018

Yeah let me give Facebook access to my Google account..... No thanks.

posted on Dec 02, 2019, 6:48 PM 2

4. CrapGame

Posts: 3; Member since: Nov 29, 2019

Exactly. No chance I'd give Facebook access to my Google account. They're scumbags.

posted on Dec 03, 2019, 12:46 AM 1

3. Charlie2k

Posts: 159; Member since: Jan 11, 2016

Just as stupid as the Whatsapp backup feature. Google is offering free backup as long as it's not encrypted. I wonder why ;) So the conversations on Whatsapp gets decrypted before backed up. Why on earth would anyone want to upload their private Facebook-stuff to Google?