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PDEC Startup Circle members met with Privacy Commissioner of Ontario before IIW

We met with Ann Cavoukian, Privacy Commissioner of Ontario on Sunday, Oct. 16th. Right  to Left: Iain Henderson – The Customers Voice Mary Hodder – Chair PDEC Joe Andrieu – Switchbook Henrik – Peer Craft Shane Green – Personal (standing) Jason Cavnar – Singly (standing) Ann Cavoukian – Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (standing) Michelle Chibba […]

Austrian students report Facebook to Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner

A move by a group around Vienna-based law student Max Schrems has set in motion a process which has now resulted in a formal privacy investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) against Facebook. The group of students explains that due to the legal structure of Facebook, any user outside of the U.S. and […]

The Many Bills of Rights

The second recommendation of the World Economic Forum report Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class after innovation around User-Centricity and Trust is the definition of global principles for using and sharing personal data. The The Startup Circle of PDEC is forming and defining its core principles now too. This post is an […]

Value Network Mapping Begins

Last week Kaliya and Verna Alee traveled to the Cloud Identity Summit to get the Phase 1 of our first Industry Collaborative project started. We are working on developing Value Network Maps of how value flows between different roles in the personal data ecosystem. We are starting with a map of how things work today […]