This article is written by Ain Aaviksoo (Estonian Telecommunications Union), Benjamin Balder Bach (Independent consultant, fmly Danish Tax & Revenue), Lal Chandran (MyData Sweden) and Philippe Page (MyData Switzerland) In this article, we introduce our ongoing work at GovStack with Consent Building Block (BB), including the key decisions we put…

This article is written by Lal Chandran, Lotta Lundin, Dr. David Goodman, Dr. Godwin Caruana and Jan Linquist On 25 November 2020, the European Commission published its proposal for a regulation on European data governance, known as the Data Governance Act [1], the first of a set of measures in…

On 29 April 2020, MyData Global, an international nonprofit organisation, published a paper ‘Understanding MyData Operators’ which provides a foundation for a roadmap towards a human-centric personal data infrastructure. …

One of the things that fascinated me when I moved to Sweden was the ease of looking up a person using an online “yellow pages” service to find out their phone number and address. This was a very useful thing when I was late for a meeting and didn’t have…

This article was first published in Dagens Industri, the leading business newspaper in Sweden in both their print and digital editions. You can access the Swedish digital version here. iGrant.io is a cloud service that helps organisations organisations to leverage customer data while being compliant to data regulations and empowering…

Wouldn’t it be great, next time when you’re shopping for wine and asked to verify your age at the cashier, if a pop-up on your phone would notify you that “Systembolaget would like to access your age”? …

One year into existence, it’s clear that GDPR fundamentally changes how business can be carried out going forward. It also has a long lasting impact on democracy, which is addressed in this article, written together with iGrant.io CTO Mr. Lal Chandran. The trust journey In 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared in his Gettysburg address…

The EU’s general data protection regulation is “principles based” with rather broad guidelines which are open to both interpretation and misinterpretation. …

When Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at a conference in Brussels last October, he became the first CEO of a major tech firm to spell out publicly his concern about data collection, surveillance, and information manipulation. …