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Data Transfer Project (DTP)

Data Transfer Project (DTP) is an open source initiative to facilitate customer-controlled data transfers between two online services. The project is a collaborative effort run by Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google and Microsoft.

DTP was developed to respect users’ rights to choose, privacy and security while easing the data transfer process and reducing requirements that might make it difficult for users to migrate data between providers. Today, if a business or individual wants to move content from one online platform to another, they have to download and save content from the first platform and then upload it to the second platform. Once an online provider belongs to the Data Transfer Project, however, the end user can authenticate data transfers for cloud service migration with one click.

It's expected that in most cases, transfer approvals will be branded and managed by the receiving provider.

DTP transfers content between services without requiring an intermediate step where the data must be downloaded, stored and re-uploaded. Instead, the content is converted by platform-specific adapters into a format that can used by the new platform’s application program interface (API). Automating data transfers between providers means that the user doesn’t have to worry about having enough storage space or accidentally corrupting the data they want to transfer.

The Google Data Liberation Front started DTP in 2017 and offered it as a service in July 2018. The project is a software fork of Download Your Data (also known as Takeout), which allows Google members to download a machine-readable copy of their personal data from across Google services.

The Data Transfer Project is still young and its future depends on the project's ability to build a successfully build a network of participants. New providers can join the DTP using the set of interfaces described in the Provider Integration Guide on GitHub.

 

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