MIM4: Personal Data

Introduction

MIM4 focuses on Personal Data Management in other words how to provide easy to use methods for individuals to control which data sets/attributes they want to share with solution, application, or service providers under transparent circumstances, enabling trust between the different parties.

There are many initiatives seeking to provide personal data management solutions, but these are primarily in the pilot or development phase, and this has led to a fragmented marketplace.

The aims of the different initiatives overlap but are not necessarily identical. Some projects focus just on personal data management, others, such as RUDI, aim to support wider data sharing ecosystems, but with personal data management being a key feature.

There are two networks of providers – MyData and Solid, which each follow different high-level methodologies. Even within each of these two networks, there are significant differences in the technical and processes used by different projects and so individual implementations are not necessarily interoperable.

There are a number of initiatives outside of these networks developing their own technical solutions.

The role of MIM4 is to identify the key capabilities required and identify pivotal points of interoperability between the different solutions to help build confidence and support implementation.

Use Cases

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Objectives

To enable individuals to be able to easily manage data about themselves so that it can enable outcomes they want, both for themselves and their community, while not compromising on privacy.

To do this in a way that will make it easy to integrate with whatever credible personal data management systems (such as forthcoming EU-registered personal data intermediary services) the individual may wish to use.

Capabilities

C1: Individuals can give permission for data about themselves to be combined in ways that enable services to which they are entitled to be offered proactively to them, including at the time they need it.

Requirements

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Mechanisms

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Specifications

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Interoperability Guidance

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Conformance and compliance testing

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