Hello, internet people. Google Takeout has been launched for you – a “data liberation platform” that lets users export their data from a number of Google products. It’s an importance service! If all your information is on Google without a backup, then you don’t have much control over it. Click through and learn things.

The Data Liberation Front, an internal engineering team at Google, is a group tasked with ensuring that users can import and export their data from Google’s products easily – going by the belief that:

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

The team launched in July with the above ha-ha we’re nerds in revolutionary uniform video, by the Data Liberation Front. Yesterday they expanded the service, previously confined to profile information, photos, and contacts to include Google Voice, with further advances forthcoming.

It’s nice that Google’s trying to make themselves more transparent! All Google wants is for you to like it. This is a good, important service, though – take it seriously. More control over your data is something you want to have. Less control over your data means important attachments get lost in the twisting nether. Also, it’s nice to know just how much Google knows about you, and by nice I mean scary.