Personal Data Accounts
What combination of technical and legal infrastructure can give individuals more control over data about them?
Moving data trusts from theory to practice will require better understandings of what can be settled in trust, how it is settled, and who will then govern it. This project proposes to create a proof-of-concept data trust, based on personal data accounts that provide an infrastructure for individuals to control their personal data. By creating this infrastructure, the project will explore the interaction between data trusts and data rights, using a hypothesised use case of social media data as a lens through which to explore these issues.
Project lead: James Kingston, Dataswift
Aggregating Personal Data Access Contracts to Create a Bottom-Up Data Trust - Data Trusts: An evolving concept considering data: a problem of rights, a problem of property (2021), James Kingston