Helping Data Trusts Manage Personal Data

Mydex CIC has just published a blog for Cambridge University’s Data Trust Initiative on ‘Helping Data Trusts Manage Personal Data’.

In it, we address the challenges that arise as the Data Trust movement begins to scale. In a world where many different Data Trusts want to access individuals’ data for a range of different purposes and services, two questions arise:

1. How can many different Data Trusts collect/access the data they need from the same individuals without creating far-reaching duplication of cost and effort?
2. How can individuals keep track of, and assert control over, the data they are sharing with many different Data Trusts?

One answer, we suggest, is to use individuals’ personal data stores as infrastructure for Data Trusts. Individuals can use their PDSs to feed their data to the Trusts they want to support and to exercise appropriate controls over this data.

The blog goes into more detail as to how this can work.