Today the EU published the
Data Governance Act. The proposed legislation introduces into
law the concept of intermediaries that provide services to individuals but do not hold the personal data used to deliver those services.
Since 2013, Coelition has been working with open community projects to support the development of human-centric and privacy-preserving technologies for responsible innovation with personal data. The Data Governance
Act will require organisations and regulators to implement new governance approaches that can be supported by the
OASIS COEL standard and
MyData Operators – initiatives in which Coelition has been deeply involved.
The OASIS COEL framework created a privacy-by-design approach for personalised digital services and IoT applications that capture data relating to an individual. The personal data intermediary concept was
coded into the OASIS COEL and the called the Operator. The new Act would ensure these services are registered in the EU and requires that they comply with several restrictions already provided by OASIS COEL: structural separation of the different services
provided by the intermediary, no formatting of data in proprietary formats and facilitating consent.
MyData operators are described in the Understanding
MyData Operators white paper. They provide infrastructure and tools for
the person in a human-centric system of personal data exchange. Operators enable people to securely access, integrate, manage, and use personal data about themselves as well as to control the flow of personal data within and between data sources and data using
services.
Our contribution to an
analysis of an early,
leaked version of the Data Governance Act was published by MyData on 6 November.
We look forward to continued work with these initiatives, the wider community, and European Commission as we follow this and future legislation in the personal data economy.
See the full press release here:
Joss Langford
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