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Editor’s note : Today the DataPortability Project announces PortabilityPolicy.org – the result of a 16 month effort that it hopes the industry will embrace. http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/data-portability-policy/

Why Every Site Should Have A Data Portability Policy

Data portability - Introduction

DataPortability Blog

http://blog.dataportability.org/ Well, here we go again.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/social/do-ordinary-users-care-about-data-portability-and-if-not-should-they-four-social-networks-respond/43

Do ordinary users care about data portability? And if not, should they? Four social networks respond. | ZDNet

Social networks operate on the premise that it should be as easy as possible for a user to input their data into the system: user profiles, blog posts, media etc, but if they try to move their data someplace else or simply want to make a backup, more than often they're out of luck.