Making identity and security Person-centric makes total sense

According to Risk-Based Security’s Data Breach Quickview Report, 2014 is on track to pass 2013, itself a record-breaker, as the year with the highest number of exposed records. RBS’s midpoint report listed 1,331 incidents…

Mydex CIC — A Community Interest Company and Social Enterprise UK member

As we so often reiterate, Mydex is a community interest company working for the individual. Our mission is to empower individuals, to give them personal control over their personal data. But what does this…

The Power of Open Source

Open source does not ask what qualifications you have, what country you live in, or whether you have the right to work on something. It is there and so long as you have access to some form of computing capability — cloud, not cloud, it really doesn’t matter — you can be a productive…

It’s Social Enterprise Day!

David Alexander, CEO and Principal Architect of the Mydex CIC Platform, sheds some light on Mydex CIC’s core values and how its innovations in personal data can radically benefit both individuals and organisations in their interactions online. Here is his guest blog post for…

Digital Animal release Mydex-based ‘social syndication’ app

Digital Animal have released the first independently-produced Mydex-based live app, a browser-based plugin application that allows secure social sharing via the Mydex platform.

Mydex: tribute to Bill Washburn

It is with great sadness we learned of the death of our friend and colleague Bill Washburn. Bill died at home on the solstice night, after a long heart-related illness.

Bill’s thinking was integral to Mydex right from the beginning when we took…

The Personal Data Economy and You

Your data speaks volumes. And everyone is listening.

That your data is being haggled over by all who can get their hands on it is no longer even in question, you only need look about you for a moment to begin to fully comprehend the gravity of…

‘GOV.UK Verify’ unveiled; Mydex predicts “win-win” with citizen in control of their data

Friday 19th September 2014

The public-facing brand of the system for proving users’ identities when using public services online launched this week. On…