How vCon and JLINC Enable Conversational and Agentic Commerce

For the better part of a year, we in the JLINC team have been actively engaged in supporting Strolid and now its spin-off,Vconic, in building and deploying the vCon draft standard. vCon is used for capturing, storing, exchanging, and analysing conversational data in a unified, audit-able, privacy-aware way. The

Data Reality

Evolving how we manage personal data to a network-based model

So, let’s talk architecture. I think we all know that architectures change over time as new things become possible. Those monstrosities of the 50’s and 60’s in London were built that way because new things became possible with concrete, and the cost of doing so reduced. Likewise

DID

What is FedID? And why is it so important?

FedID is a way for people to establish their own universal login credential – a portable representation of themselves that fits seamlessly into existing standard infrastructure. Login with Google or Facebook actually runs on a web protocol called Open ID Connect, or OIDC. OIDC is the most widely used way to

Data Provenance

Moving beyond the chicken and the egg around personal data empowerment for individuals

For many years, those of us who believe in data empowerment from the individual perspective have suffered from the ‘chicken and egg’ problem. That is, if one wants to connect individuals and organisations in trustworthy data sharing relationships then there needs to be enough people and organisations in the connected

Data Provenance

AI needs data permission & provenance

Machine Learning, now popularly called AI, offers great promise for a wide variety of applications, however it also has a number of serious problems, many of them less severe than the total extinction of humanity. One of the most fundamental problems with many of the implementations of AI is the

Data Reality

Reflections on the MyData Global 2023 conference

We have just finished a fantastic Mydata 2023 conference, and thought it best to write up some notes and thoughts before heading home and catching up with sleep!! Firstly, let's congratulate the organisers and the great city of Helsinki. The pandemic caused a gap, and last year some

Contracts

How JLINC enables governed data spaces

In looking forward to the MyData Global 2023 conference this week, I thought it might be a good idea to post some thoughts on how the JLINC protocol enables and underpins governed data ecosystems, also known as Data Spaces. Before doing so, it might be a good idea to set

Patent

JLINC overview for developers

JLINC is a protocol for sharing data protected by an agreement on the terms under which the data is being shared. The agreement is known as an Information Sharing Agreement (ISA),which can be a reference to a standardized agreement (a Standard InformationSharing Agreement or SISA) or to a one-off

Commerce

The JLINC protocol - Business perspective

This post builds on the intro to JLINC and the patent at: www.jlinc.com/post/jlinc-patent In this post we drill into the business and commercial use cases and implications. A further post will cover the detailed technical perspectives. Since the World Wide Web emerged in the mid 1990’

Patent

JLINC patent enables 2-way permissioned Internet data exchange

The US PTO issued Internet Data Usage Control System on January 17, 2023. The patent grants broad coverage for JLINC, which provides a new mechanism to control how data may be used after it is exchanged. Originally developed to give people agency over personal data, as required under GDPR in

Data Provenance

Co-managing my data

This post sets out a vision for what could become a sustainable set of human-centric processes around the sourcing, management and use of personal data. Our context for doing so is that the current model for personal data management on The Internet is badly broken and has architectural limitations that

Contracts

Should online privacy really mean confidentiality?

JLINC can deliver that On May 25th the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. The following morning the sun rose right on schedule, and people went about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. In fact, people had been receiving email messages from online services for

GDPR

JLINC offers all sides a working technical solution for AB-375 –– now.

California just passed GDPR-lite. AB-375 will go into effect in January of 2020. JLINC founder Jim Fournier weighs in. How will businesses comply with this? JF: JLINC offers a way for customers to easily manage their preferences across all companies that opt-in. Signing up takes just minutes, and then onboarding

A modest proposal

Kaliya – Identity Woman has authored many seminal posts including a lucid discussion of the nature of online identity that I still find myself referring people to, 10 years later. She’s done it again with “Where to begin with OIDC and SIOP” (OpenID Connect / Self-Issued OpenID Provider) – demonstrating her unique

Advertising

Alice and Bob’s relationship is broken

Alice and Bob are the primary characters in a cast of characters first used in cryptographic circles as placeholder names to represent different parties in a transaction. The story goes like this. Alice wants to send a message to Bob, but she doesn't want anyone but Bob to

Adtech

Attention advertisers: the medium is the message

Way back in the sixties, the writer and philosopher MarshallMcLuhan became known for the expression “the medium is the message.” Every newcommunication technology has its own particular character, and each affects theway its users think, their social interactions and society in general. When the Internet, and especially the World Wide

GDPR

Is GDPR failing to deliver data portability?

Six months in, and it is difficult to separate GDPR theory from GDPR reality. So I decided to find out for myself. As a self-confessed data geek, I have long had an interest in the concept of ‘data portability’. That is to say, from the data subject perspective, being able

Advertising

My data, your data, our data, their data, everybody’s data

Almost a decade back, I wrote a blog post to try to help find a way to describe the many headed beast that is the personal data eco-system, and specifically the scenario in which individuals are in data sharing relationships with organisations – sometimes knowingly, sometimes not. Having spent the last

Data Reality

The idea that will save the data business

Here's why the data industry is in dire straits — and what will save them. (Hint: it's us.) Here's why the data industry is in dire straits — and what will save them. (Hint: it's us.) Demand for privacy = data ain't so

Adtech

Me-commerce — from push to pull

"Pull's so 3008; Push is so 2000 and late." — Fergie I’ve been reflecting of late that I’ve now been working in what amounts to direct or data-driven marketing for 31 years. I guess that’s what happens when one’s university course choice is

Data Provenance

Blockchain 2.0: controlling your data across the internet

Jim Fournier The JLINC Protocol is the interoperable solution for transparent crypto-contracts – cryptographically signed 'data exchange contracts'. JLINC offers a simple elegant path to distributed Internet data control solutions, for everything from personal data in the EU, to B2B contract automation, to medical data, to binding IoT agreements

GDPR

JLINC takes GDPR from spam-acea to panacea

Just weeks ago, the letters G-D-P-R seemed to spell 'd-o-o-m' for any company selling consumer data out the back door. Which, by the way, was just about every tech company. But the GDPR, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, isn't quite the panacea

GDPR

GDPR is helping drive the development of a new marketing channel

Many attempts to ‘look on the bright side’ of GDPR are, to say the least, tenuous. But, one really tangible benefit is starting to emerge – the birth of a completely new channel for marketers. Virtually all responsible European organisations have changed their corporate privacy policies, or at least their customer-facing

GDPR

If I wanted to get there, I would not start from here

I’m spending a lot of time right now down in the weeds of a large GDPR project; it’s hard going. The issues are not the usual suspects -budget, resources or even timescale. The problems are two-fold. Firstly there is a lack of precision in the regulation; that is

Data Provenance

JLINC and the Internet

My Co-founder, Victor Grey, has just completed a whitepaper that explains JLINC in five pages. JLINC Technical Philosophy provides a concise background rooted in the lineage of ideas that led up to the JLINC protocol, and explains how it achieves a new paradigm for data exchange on the internet. This