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Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by raldi »

anaganisk wrote: post #118
raldi wrote: post #47

Google Takeout is a great solution to the problem of, how do we get Google programmers, without protest, to write functionality into their services to allow Big Brother to acquire a neat and tidy copy of all a user’s data?

Hey I see you got your Tinfoil hat on, but seriously what? Do you think its really tough to find a 50 group of bean counting programmers in entire google, who cant build this tool for BigB?

The functionality needs to be written into every product. Every PM would be aware of it, every software engineer would see the code. The story would leak and articles would get written about the “pervasive privacy back doors written into everything at Google”

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by duxup »

robotnikman wrote: post #111
duxup wrote: post #37

I have this run every few months and then download and backup the archive. I like to think it will be helpful in case of the dreaded 'locked out of google for no reason and no recourse' situation.

Would be nice if there was a way to automate the process.

Agreed.

It does allow you to send the takeouts regularly to google drive, but the amount of data I have is too much for that / fills my drive.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by tambeb »

ir77 wrote: post #44

i'm very curious about something -- people here rave about the takeout -- does anyone actually use the thing? i've tried the takeout option about a year ago when i wanted to switch from google photos to apple photos and it was an absolute mess, it exported random zipped folders, all broken up (i think there were 14 of thema ll together), multiple images were duplicates, somehow it managed to corrupt apple format of p…

I do a full takeout every month or so, both for myself and also my parents. It's largely so that we don't lose anything if Google does one of its awesome sudden account disablings.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by cromantic »

yoaviram wrote: post #17
_odey wrote: post #2

Once the export is done and I see something I don't want to exist anymore, where do I request that data be permanently removed (GDPR style)? Asking as I honestly don't know.

https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/google.com This service will generate an email with a general deletion request. Modify it to ask for the specific information you want deleted. Disclaimer: I'm the creator of this service.

Options are GDPR which applies to European Union residents and CCPA which applies to Californians. Is there anything for people within the US who are residents of the other 49 states?

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by [deleted] »

ir77 wrote: post #80
karlicoss wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think breaking up is a ZIP limitation (max archive size is 4GB) I'm exporting it regularly (although I certainly don't have 120Gb of photos on it). You can choose an option for regular exports (every two months), and delivery method (e.g. Google Drive). Then I have a script that runs daily, mounts google drive, moves the takeout locally if it's present and removes from google drive (so it doesn't take space). Then…

"Then indeed, inside you have mess with some data in HTML, some in JSON, etc. But well, at least you can parse it..." how is some regular schmuck that wants to move his data out of google to another service supposed to determine what they actually have to parse? the user simply uploads pictures into the system but gets garbage out? the scarry part here is that google makes it extermely easy to suck in the data but fo…

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Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by 411111111111111 »

pmiller2 wrote: post #100
411111111111111 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multiple Google accounts is against ToS though afaik

Where in the ToS is it prohibited?

you're absolutely correct. its only against the tos to create another account if any of yours have been banned. Having multiple accounts is allowed for work/private purposes.

> Many people have more than one Google Account, like a personal account and a work account. Uses like that are fine.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by solinent »

choward wrote: post #90
solinent wrote: post #36

I just deleted it all, it was easier, now I just keep it all on my machine. No more takeout--home cooked meals. I can see why it doesn't appeal to all though.

I hope you have an encrypted off-site backup somewhere.

I wasn't using Google for anything significant so it was pretty easy to delete it. If I care about a picture I'll print it and keep it in a book, I would never trust a corp that's only been in the data business for 10-15 years, especially one known for stealing your information for advertiser's gain.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by scrollaway »

raldi wrote: post #65
scrollaway wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you're saying makes absolutely no sense and doesn't pass Occam's razor. Please back it with some semblance of reasoning at least.

Could you elaborate on that? Do you disagree that Google Takeout is used for government user-data requests, or that absent such functionality, programmers tend to balk at implementing such requests?

Google takeout is an inefficient tool for government requests, yes.

I'm sure it may get used but I highly doubt it's a primary tool in any way. PRISM revealed how much custom tooling is made specifically for governments and for giving back data to them, automatically addressing their requests etc. Takeout is slow, bulky, and its audience is the end user.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by webmaven »

411111111111111 wrote: post #126
pmiller2 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where in the ToS is it prohibited?

you're absolutely correct. its only against the tos to create another account if any of yours have been banned. Having multiple accounts is allowed for work/private purposes. > Many people have more than one Google Account, like a personal account and a work account. Uses like that are fine.

> you're absolutely correct. its only against the tos to create another account if any of yours have been banned. Having multiple accounts is allowed for work/private purposes.

Huh. What happens if you already have multiple accounts, and one of them gets banned?

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by tambeb »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #20

I periodically use the takeout service and selectively copy to the 1TB of storage I have on OneDrive (which comes with an Office 365 subscription). Having my digital stuff backed up on two cloud providers is enough for my capacity for risk. I used to make a 3rd backup in Dropbox but don’t do that anymore.

Yes! I do the backup OneDrive backup too. (Not a typo, I meant to say backup twice.) And I actually do it for my live Google Drive as well.

I rsync my Google Drive folder to network storage, without deletion, and I have OneDrive syncing that. So I have a local and cloud backup of everything that's ever been in Google Drive.

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