Personal data service

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A personal data service (PDS) gives the user a central point of control for their personal information (e.g. interests, contact information, affiliations, preferences, friends). The user's data attributes being managed by the service may be stored in a co-located repository, or they may be stored in multiple external distributed repositories, or a combination of both. Attributes from a PDS may be accessed via an API. Users of the same PDS instance may be allowed to selectively share sets of attributes with other users. A data ecosystem is developing where such sharing among projects or "operators" may become practicable. [1]

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The concept of a PDS can be differentiated from another closely related term, personal data store. "A personal data store is a physical repository for data over which an individual exerts access control. Again, the term itself does not imply where such a store lives on the network (i.e., in the cloud, on a local device, in a smart card, on a SIM, etc.)" [2] . The word "store" implies that a personal data store actually stores personal data, [3] whereas the emphasis of a PDS is on providing a single point of control. [4] In summary, a 'personal data store' always stores data whereas, whereas a personal data service may or may not.

Personal Data Services

Open Source

Cloud

  • Atsign - "P2P personal data management and sharing platform"
  • HIEofOne - "Managing personal health information shouldn’t be so hard."
  • iGrant.io - "Infrastructure for data exchange and verification services with digital wallets"
  • Self Research Institute - "[T]he first full stack solution for human centric technology."

Non-open source

Personal Data Stores

Open Source Projects

Cloud

  • (HAT) Hub-of-All-Things
  • Own Your Info - "Your Personal Data Vault"
  • Personium.io - "An interconnectable open source PDS (Personal Data Store) server envisioning world wide web of protected data APIs."
  • Prifina.com - "[A] personal data platform where the data is owned by individuals themselves. Anyone can build services for people to live happier and healthier lives."
  • SOLID Project - "Solid: Your data, your choice. Advancing Web standards to empower individuals and groups."
  • Decentralized Web Node - "A Decentralized Web Node (DWN) is a data storage and message relay mechanism entities can use to locate public or private permissioned data related to a given Decentralized Identifier (DID).)"

Cloud or on-device

  • BYODA - Bring Your Own Data and Algorithms: a data store supporting social media services, such as BYO.Tube.

On-Device only

  • Prifina - a personal data engine that allows individuals get value from their data and empowers developers to build applications on top of user-held data.

Inactive

  • data.fm - an open source, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store as well as an API to enable bi-directional attribute updates from external websites and services. The APIs are based on standards and include WebDav, SPARQL and linked data. Data formats exchanged include RDF, XML and JSON.
  • Dogsheep Project - Build your own Personal Data Warehouse. Dogsheep is a collection of tools (open-source) for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette (Python). [5]
  • Higgins - Higgins is an open source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data. Includes a personal datastore.
  • ID Hole - a dynamic and commercial consumer PDS that allows for the storing of personal data and the dynamic sharing of that data with other parties.
  • The Locker Project - an open source, JavaScript-based, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store that exists on a person's personal computer as well as an API to support local applications.
  • openPDS/SafeAnswers - openPDS/SafeAnswers allows users to collect, store, and give fine-grained access to their data all while protecting their privacy.
  • OwnYourInfo - a personal information storing and sharing application. [6]

Non-open source

Cloud

  • Cozy Cloud - "A smart personal cloud to gather all your data"
  • Inrupt - "Harness the web as a data platform for everyone"

On-device

  • SNPLab - on-device MyData platform provider for combined personal data based on self-issued DID

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References

  1. Langford, Joss. "Understanding MyData Operators" (PDF). mydata. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  2. Reed, Drummond. "Revision: "Personal Data Service" AND "Personal Data Store" Go Together".
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