Soon you will be able to easily transfer your photos from Facebook to Google

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Soon you will be able to easily transfer your photos from Facebook to Google
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Universal data portability is beginning to take shape, and Facebook wants to be one of the first reference platforms to apply it by launching a new tool that allows its users to transfer Facebook photos directly to Google Photos.


It will be much easier to port photos from Facebook to Google Photos
It is true that until now any user of the social network could download any image or video they had uploaded to the platform, but there was no way to transfer all Facebook photos to any other platform in an orderly and functional way, as Steve Satt Email Data erfield explains. , director of public and privacy policies at Facebook, in his official statement .

“ For almost a decade, we have allowed people to download their information from Facebook. The Facebook photo transfer tool is based on code developed through our participation in the open source Data Transfer Project .

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Data Transfer Project: the data portability and interoperability project of the Internet giants
A little over a year ago we told you about the Data Transfer Project, the project that emerged from an alliance between the world's technology greats that will allow the portability and interoperability of user data between different platforms, in a way that is not only more easy, but safe. Technology giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter, among others, participate in this project.


This project is based on the right of data portability, one of the points of the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe (GDPR), which establishes that any user can request the recovery of the data they have stored for subsequent transmission. another entity. However, the Data Transfer Project increases this possibility while reducing the infrastructure load for both service providers and users by optimizing work.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft join forces in the Data Transfer Project to achieve universal portability of your data


For now, Facebook photos can be easily ported to Google Photos, although it is expected that this feature will be available for other services in the future.



Starting this week, the new portability tool is available in Ireland in its testing phase, and will be refined based on user feedback so that, according to the social network, it will be available worldwide during the first half of  .

How you can transfer your photos from Facebook to Google Photos
To access this new portability tool once it is available, users will have to access their settings on Facebook , in the same section where it is possible to download personal information.

According to Steve Satterfield, the social network has kept “ privacy and security as top priorities, so all data transferred will be encrypted and people will be asked to enter their password before initiating a transfer.”

In addition to the fact that the Facebook photo portability tool will be useful for those people who do not automatically backup these images from their phones, it is also very useful for those who have added previous images to this recovery system.