Noteworthy Information

Individuals Simple read

Deploying Personal Data Stores at Scale

An important change is beginning to sweep the world of personal data. For many years, people have debated the question ‘what if individuals — e.g. citizens, customers — were able to assert genuine control over their own data?’ Now the debate is moving on to how to make this happen, at scale.

Individuals Simple read

A Data Democracy Comes With Individual Data Control

In our new book (September 2021), we look at the growing trend of personal data stores or personal data intermediaries, helping individuals take control over and empower themselves with their data. If we want to create a fair and equal society, we call it a data democracy, neither state nor big companies should control our data – and thus our lives. This does not mean that the state or companies do not sit on some of our data. But you are in the driver’s seat and retain control of your full profile.

[Simple] Tim Berners-Lee to Remake the Digital World

Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?

Personal Data Ownership

Legal, Economic, and Political Reasons For Individuals to Have Ownership Rights over Their Personal Data Triggered responses from different views ('baisc human rights' or 'property rights') in Slack.

Open Source Body: Small data, self-research, open humans

An exploration of individuals using their own data – with a focus on quantified self, open humans, and various examples self-research where individuals collect and use their personal data in new ways.

W3C Secure Data Store Standard

Specification to establish a foundational layer for secure data storage (including personal data), specifically data models for storage and transport, syntax, data at rest protection, CRUD API, access control, synchronization, and at least a minimum viable HTTP-based interface compatible with W3C DIDs/VCs.

Common Endpoints for Personal Data Stores

I'd like to publicly announce a new initiative that was initially started at the MyData 2019 conference: Common Endpoints for Personal data Stores (CEPS). Together with @salmanff and @Dixon we created a document for Personal Data Store (PDS) providers and App developers that will allow interoperability between PDS and using Apps across different PDS.

MyData Operator

Some interesting drawings about the different dimensions and approaches of PIMS (Personal Information Management System).

Introducing Personal Data Exchanges & the Personal Data Economy

The next big technological shift is to a world where every individual can manage and (optionally) monetise their personal data. Companies like Facebook and Google already make billions because they know everything about us via our online habits. What if we could take a cut? What if we could own and sell our data directly?


Questions Asked

Developers Intermediate read

Exploring collective governance approaches to personal data exchange platforms

Call for participation in research: Participatory data infrastructures such as data platforms could facilitate the collective management, interpretation and use of data aggregates. But what platforms exist to implement such practices? Are you a designer exploring collective governance mechanisms for data use? We would love to hear from you!

Cost for Developing a Personal Data Store

I have been asked to find out what the cost would be to hire developers to create a personal data store.

Contact for Personal Data Management Technologies

Who is the best person to talk to about personal data management technologies (solutions that allow the keeping, searching inputing and outputing of personal data of end users)?


Tools
Consento

The Consento-System allows everyone to accept the help of a human to keep data in a private and safe store. It does not rely on servers and is not systematically exploitable. It reduces the risk of human errors and puts value in the creation of human connections and trust between them. It is open and free.

Digi.me

A new ethical and sustainable way for individuals to take control of their data and privately share with data-driven apps and services.

Meeco

Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data

OwnYourData Data-Vault

Tap into data sources and store your information in a personal vault. Based on that data OwnYourData presents you correlations and insights.

Personium

An interconnectable open source PDS (Personal Data Store) server envisioning world wide web of protected data APIs.

Rita

It's your data, own it. Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.

Solid

Solid: Your data, your choice. Advancing Web standards to empower people.

freezr

freezr makes it easy to set up your own personal server and to build & run simple javascript apps on it.