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It's revealing how hard this stuff is when Google's Data Liberation Front needed 4 years to release Google Takeout – which I consider to be best-in-class for pe
by lelandfe 5y ago
It's revealing how hard this stuff is when Google's Data Liberation Front needed 4 years to release Google Takeout – which I consider to be best-in-class for personal data access.
- jsnell 5y agoIt is a hard problem, but the GDPR went into effect 3 years and 10 months ago. That date didn't come as a surprise, but was known 6 years ago. Anything newer than that should have taken data requests into account from the design stage. Anything older than that has had ample time to adjust. More than that 4 years you quote for Takeout!
- blip54321 5y agoI disagree. Google Takeout is a sham. It doesn't have all the data they collect about you. It's almost adequate for data portability, but not quite. It's useless for data transparency. Google Docs keeps keystroke-level logs of everything you type, for example. That's not in Takeout. Neither are things needed to conduct a security audit (that's a paid service for Workspace customers). Neither is a lot of advertising profiling data.