Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by IanCal on Thursday December 05, 2013 @02:07PM (#6856415)

I think this is fairly obvious but there's a clear difference between "data belonging to a user" and "data about a user". The first is what they are talking about, because this is how vendor lock-in occurs.

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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by Florin_Andrei on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:45PM (#6857092)

Yes, there is a difference, absolutely.

No, the line between the two categories is not clear at all.

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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by IanCal on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:55AM (#6859981)

Can you give me an example of an ambiguous case? I can't think of any personally.

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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by JW_00000 on Friday December 06, 2013 @09:35AM (#6861179)

Well, the URLs I enter in Chrome for example: is that data belonging to me because I entered it, or is it data about me because they track it?

Or even the connections I have on Google+: is it data belonging to me because I entered it?

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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by IanCal on Friday December 06, 2013 @10:54AM (#6861659)

You're not really handing over URLs to google saying "here are some urls, please keep them", are you? Bookmarks, yes, and you can easily export them.

> Or even the connections I have on Google+: is it data belonging to me because I entered it?

Yes. Google takeout lets you download your G+ circles, if that helps.

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