Facebook Tool To Export Pictures To Google Photos Now Available

shanen shares a report from Android Police: Late last year, Facebook announced a tool to let users easily migrate their uploaded photos to Google Photos. The tool was initially available in Ireland, with plans to expand to more countries in the first half of this year. The social network has made good on those plans by expanding the rollout to the US and Canada in April, and now reaching a global rollout today. [...]

It's a pretty straightforward process: from the general Facebook settings, select Your Facebook Information -> Transfer a Copy of Your Photos or Videos. From there, just follow the prompts. The tool came out of the joint Data Transfer Project by Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft -- a GDPR-compliant initiative to make personal data more mobile. In addition to downloading a copy or exporting it to Google Photos, users will eventually have more destination options for their photos, although Facebook hasn't said which. Slashdot reader shanen adds the following commentary: "Mixed emotions. It could actually be a good thing if it became part of a general trend of allowing us to control and thereby more effectively own our own data. But when has Facebook ever done a good thing?"

Here we go!

[AndyKron]

Fuck ya! Computers can do that?

I don't get it

[glitch!]

I take a picture. I transfer it to my computer. I trim it with gimp, and sometimes scale it down. Then I post it to ebay or a web forum. I spend maybe a minute on this. How the F is this useful?! I have NEVER used Facebook or "Google Photos". Never.

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[account_deleted]

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Out of frying pan, into fire?

[nerdflu]

Great, so now we can transfer pics from one unholy data mining juggernaut to another? Where do I sign up?

What?

[SpankiMonki]

"It could actually be a good thing if it became part of a general trend of allowing us to control and thereby more effectively own our own data."

Sorry, I don't see how being able to copy photos from one privacy raping platform to another privacy raping platform allows us to "effectively own our own data".

Making it worse

[khchung]

Bulking downloading your photos to your own PC made sense.

Bulking sending it to yet another data glutton is making things worse for you. Now your data is being mined by TWO companies instead of only ONE.

This is simply a power consolidation move, similar to patent sharing agreement between a group of companies, the purpose is to lock out other players by having a consolidated front. This kind of agreement would be considered anti-competitive collusion in some countries.

Google Advanced Protection

[octagon]

If you have google advanced protection (as you should); you cannot execute this as even with append only scope it is denied.

Sample error message:

Request Details
access_type=offline
o2v=1
response_type=code
redirect_uri=https://www.facebook.com/dtp/
state=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
prompt=consent
client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com
scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.appendonly

Turns out Facebook has already won this war

[shanen]

Well, too bad I got a bit busy again and I missed all the fireworks, eh?

What, no fireworks? And the story has already fallen off the front page of Slashdot, which means it has effectively died of old age and expired.

I don't mind the lack of fireworks. I am a bit bothered by the lack of thought on Slashdot, which was once a thoughtful place. I was even hoping for help from the thoughtful crowd of Slashdot in thinking more deeply about the topic. I'm kind of stupid and sometimes I can't see the obvious, thoug