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

DTI builds on and extends the past years of work on the Data Transfer Project (DTP). Three contributors — Apple, Meta, and Google — came together to support the creation of DTI to continue and expand the work of bringing data portability to all.

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.

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.

Learn more about DTI and our work! About DTI

Recent posts

  • tools

Progress towards real world portability solutions

We are celebrating a milestone on our work to build a DTP-powered music playlist transfer tool - code from both Apple and Google is now in the DTP repo. Read more >
  • security

Threat Model Part 3 - Access, Content, and Spoofing

Part three of a series on service-to-service user-data portability architectures and how we can do threat modeling against the generic architecture. While exploring access control, harmful content and spoofing, many details turn out to be use-case dependent and the threat model must be considered again when we implement specific solutions. Hopefully this is a useful map of the threat territory. Read more >
  • news

New from DTI - Trust Model and Portability Map

We are excited for two brand-new releases today, our first-ever portability map tool and the trust model report for third-party transfers. Check them out! Read more >
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