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The upside of making personal data portable

Implemented the right way, data portability could help address a structural flaw that’s constraining and distorting the workings of our current data economy. If the only entities able to collect and use personal data are large organisations, then…

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Jul 18

Making Data Portability Work

Article 20 of the new General Data Protection Regulations creates a new right for citizens: the right to data portability. Rarely does one small clause in a massive piece of legislation strike at the very heart of the way the economy works, but this does.

Safe by Default

When people talk about personal data, many quickly get ensnared by endless debates about consent: what it means, whether people really understand what they are consenting to, how best to give and get informed consent, and so on.

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May 29

Design principles for a new data infrastructure

So far in this series, we have explained 1) that the biggest, most important issue about personal data is the one least talked about: the structural flaw at the heart of our system whereby individuals cannot gather, store or use their data for…

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May 21

The need for a new personal data infrastructure

In our last blog we argued that the core issue with personal data today is not a matter of ‘policy’ (the policies and practices organisations adopt when they collect and use personal data) but a structural issue which requires a structural…

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May 14

Why so much debate about personal data misses the point

Ten years ago, when we were setting up Mydex we published a White Paper — The Case for Information Empowerment the rise of Personal Data Stores — which set out our raison d’etre and vision. A lot has happened since then: the rise of…

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Apr 25

Future of Identity and getting there

We were recently interviewed by an organisation researching trends in identity. In this blog we publish the questions they asked, and the answers we gave.