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Re:An open source platform promoting universal data portability by cube2222 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:45AM (#17598401)
Keep in mind, a huge company is also just a collection of people.

As far as I understood, this project is from the developers working on the gdpr-originating user export functionality. Maybe they've just been passionate about it and had a vision for a more user friendly solution and managed to push it through somehow.

Re:An open source platform promoting universal data portability by zimbatm on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:40AM (#17599734)
It's probably both. They managed to push it through because it aligns with the higher-level company goals as well.