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bitdestroyer on Jan 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Declares War on the Password

I understand your point, but I do think Google may be a bad choice of examples. If I'm not mistaken (correct me if I am), they have or are implementing some data liberation functionality to download your data from their systems.

My work blocks Google Account access so I can't quite verify this for you, but I believe it's there. I'm not sure how far it spreads across their product offerings though at this point.

takluyver on Jan 18, 2013 [–]

Their information site on exporting your data: http://www.dataliberation.org/

The tool to export data from some of their services: https://www.google.com/takeout/

You can set up an IMAP/POP connection to GMail and copy your emails out. gmvault (a third party tool) uses that to make backups.

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