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Briefing
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- Data Transfer Project – Technology giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter announced Data Transfer Project, initiative creating platform that will allow users to transfer their data between service providers
- Covered Data – Supports transfer of photos, mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks
- Open Source – Project is open source with code available on GitHub
- Encrypted Transfers – Encrypts data while being transferred, issuing transaction keys
- One-Time Use – Allows for one-time transfer of data rather than continuous interoperability
- GDPR Compliant – Compliant with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which requires companies to make available customers’ data in universal format
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Accelerator
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Market Disruption
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Business Model and Practices
Business Model
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc.
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Source
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Brandom, R., "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project",
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Summers, N., "Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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July 20, 2018
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