This is an interesting development:
The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that any data that you create in (or import into) a product is your own.Google Liberation Front
Clearly, this isn’t a reaction to anything I’ve been saying lately about Google and privacy (1, 2, 3), but it is nice to see that Google does think about privacy concerns. Credit where credit is due.
Via Lifehacker