YOUR DIGITAL SELF

Your Digital Self is an early stage ethical start-up dedicated to personal information and privacy. They provide a new type of ‘last mile’ solution; connecting citizens very concretely into GDPR, GAIA-X, MyData and other privacy oriented principles and legislation. They are building technological solutions and operational procedures to the very real privacy and data ownership problems we are all currently facing. They do that by exploiting existing technologies and processes such as blockch... ain, “Solid” decentralised storage and API connections, while developing new state of the art ones in the field of cryptography, sharing rights management and legal identification verification. They are in the early stage, currently working on both a crowd-fundable product and technical prototype and are looking for allies and investors. Acutely aware of the high visibility of this topic in the media, they are dedicated to make a real dent in the way data ownership is currently handled. A senior researcher for data protection and sovereignty at the prestigious German research institute Fraunhofer FIT, mr Benjamin Heitmann (Ph.D.), already called the approach of Your Digital Self a "groundbreaking idea". Do you know how much your personal data is shared? Even in which countries?More