Jim Fournier - JLINC Blog

Jim Fournier

Jim is co-founder and CEO of JLINC Labs

What is FedID? And why is it so important?

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

AI needs data permission & provenance

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

JLINC patent enables 2-way permissioned Internet data exchange

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

Blockchain 2.0: controlling your data across the internet

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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

JLINC and the Internet

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