DTI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering technology users to transfer data from one service to another.

Policy

DTI policy staff are following or engaged in many active areas of policy across the EU, USA, and other jurisdictions.

Technology

DTI technical staff analyze solutions and risks and share that analysis via our newsletter and other forums, including directly with policy-makers.

The Portability Map is a public repository of help articles focused on data portability, hosted by DTI. You can help out by using the portability map to find answers to your portability use case questions, by providing detailed feedback on use cases, or even by contributing articles.

DTI Partners

DTI’s ancestor, the Data Transfer Project, was created in 2018 as an industry collaboration with a mission of enabling users to complete simple, fast, and secure data transfers directly between services. Since its creation, the project has built an open source technology framework that powers direct data transfer features within Google Takeout, Facebook’s Transfer your Information, and Apple’s Data and Privacy page, as well as software libraries that connect to over a dozen additional services.

DTI partners help translate principle to practice, catalyzing greater user agency and empowerment by committing dedicated policy and engineering resources to the promotion of data portability.

DTI Highlights

Global Vision paper

The Data Transfer Initiative is pleased to present the Global Vision paper. This paper complements our EU, UK, and US vision papers. It is suitable for use in any geographic environment.

Check out our paper

Learn more about DTI and our work! About DTI

Recent posts

  • news

DTI in Europe - now on a continuous and real-time basis

It was with great excitement and personal pride that I joined the DTI team in February as the newly created Head of Europe. Read more >
  • engagement

Goodbye Skype, Old Friend

It’s time to say goodbye to Skype…and maybe go grab your data before the end. Read more >
  • events

Portability in Practice - A Discussion with Google

Recently, DTI hosted Google for a conversation on its new data portability APIs. Here’s how it went. Read more >
View all