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."[1] The team, which consults with other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" Google products, currently supports 57 products.[2] 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[3] or the service is discontinued by Google.
See main article: Google Takeout. 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.[4]
| Service | Date "liberated" | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 28, 2011 | |||
| June 28, 2011 | |||
| June 28, 2011 | |||
| June 28, 2011 | |||
| June 28, 2011 | |||
| +1 | July 15, 2011[5] | ||
| August 1, 2011[6] | via the Google Tasks Porter (not part of Google Takeout) | ||
| September 6, 2011[7] | |||
| Gmail chat logs | September 15, 2011 | ||
| January 24, 2012 | |||
| September 26, 2012[8] | Exports original videos only (no edits made with YouTube Studio) | ||
| November 14, 2012[9] | |||
| November 14, 2012 | |||
| December 5, 2013 | |||
| December 5, 2013[10] |
See main article: Data Transfer Project. On July 20, 2018, Google's Data Liberation Front engineering team announced the Data Transfer Project in partnership with Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter (now X), an ecosystem which features data portability between multiple online platforms without the need of downloading and re-uploading data.[11]