The amount of services that we use on a daily basis is increasing. The complexity of unifying the access systems and all the information that we have in these services make it increasingly difficult to advance in privacy and security. However, a year ago the data transfer project, a project that has in mind to unify the data of the main technological giants in order to distribute it among them in a secure way while maintaining control over our data. Apple has joined the project in which Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft were already found.
Data Transfer Project welcomes Apple
Data Transfer Project (DTP) is a collaboration of organizations committed to building a common framework with open source code that can connect two service providers online, enabling seamless, direct and user-initiated data portability. between the two platforms.
Doing a quick reading of the project, it seems that what we would be doing when we join the Data Transfer Project is provide our data to all those companies, as if it were a free market for information. But if we go deeper into the project, we realize that it is totally different. The objective of this young project is facilitate the user the transfer of information from one network to another. In this way, we would not have to access external APIs, but the open source DTP would be the mediator between both parties. A safe, fast and protected method by the great technology.
Apple has announced its adherence to the project and it does so to those who were already members: Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Facebook. Apple will have the mission of integrating mainly iCloud and iCloud Drive to the systems compatible with DTP and will have to create a tool similar to Google Takeout. Currently, the project has more than 1500 files, more than 40.000 lines of code and continues to grow exponentially every day.
