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A Vision for Personal Data

It is election time in the UK. What should the political parties be putting in their manifestos? We think it would go something like this:

“The way our society currently collects and uses personal data is deeply unfair, often harmful, economically…

How data sharing really works

Often when we talk to organisations about a new personal data infrastructure we discover they’re labouring under a number of misapprehensions. The most common misapprehension is that if data is stored in an individual’s personal data store the organisation can no longer…

Microsoft HealthVault

Microsoft Health Vault

After nearly 12 years in operation, Microsoft has announced it is closing its HealthVault — a service that was originally touted as empowering…

What is the economic value of data?

We ask this question because the UK’s Treasury is asking it, to inform the development of a National Strategy for Data. If we get the answers wrong, we could spend many years in the doldrums. But if we get them right, huge new opportunities could be opened up.

Data Trusts and other shaggy dog shortcuts

Over the last year or so a buzz has grown up around the concept of ‘data trusts’. The OECD has begun work on designing and building data trusts. And in its recent paper on the economic value of data, the Treasury says the UK Government is “exploring data…

Killing many birds with one stone

Sometimes, no matter how difficult it might seem, you just have to go back to basics. To solve a problem you have to go back to the root cause and deal with this root cause. And if you don’t, no matter what sticking plaster solutions you apply, the same old problems…