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If you use Gmail for your email, Google reader for reading your RSS feeds, Google Calender to schedule your events, Picasa Web Album for all your photos, Blogger for your blog, Google Analytics to monitor your website and Google Docs for all your office word processing and spreadsheets, then you should realize how much data you are relying on Google.

Sure it’s easy to fall in love with a good service. You might still trust Google to stay and you still believe that Google will stick to their informal cooperate motto, “Don’t be evil.”

But what if that all change? A change in the management made Google evil. Or they just decide to pack it up and leave or sell the company to someone else? What would happen to all your data?

Which is why it is good there are initiative like Google Data Liberation Front which is a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products.

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google with a single goal to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. They work with other Google product engineers to make sure there is a why to move your data. Their mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

Visit dataliberation.org for more information.