Facebook Expands Its Photo Transfer Tool to the U.S. and Canada

Testing began in Ireland last December

Facebook quietly rolled out the photo transfer tool it began testing last December in the U.S. and Canada this week.

The social network kicked off testing of the tool in Ireland last December, enabling people to transfer their photos and videos from the social network directly to other online services, beginning with Google Photos.

Director of privacy and public policy Steve Satterfield wrote in a Newsroom post at the time, “At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.

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