Facebook Testing a Way to Let You Move Photos to Rival Sites – NYTimes

Michael Veale, a lecturer in digital rights and regulation at the University College London, said a better way to encourage competition would be to allow non-Facebook users to interact with those who were on the social network, for actions like messaging and organizing events.

“Being able to port your data does not threaten Facebook,” said Mr. Veale, who has filed a privacy complaint against Facebook in Europe for not giving him access to data that the network holds about him.

Martin Husovec, an assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who has written about data…