Personal Data Services Model
Outline of possible standards-based approach
Content
Introduction
This document is a first attempt to assess the desirability, feasibility and acceptability of developing and normalising a “Personal Data Services Model”.
It attempts to address the often very thorny issue of personal data management by firstly “unbundling” many assumptions and presumptions about what “personal data” actually means before going on to highlight the problems and issues involved when attempting to identify, authenticate, use and manage “personal data”.
It then looks at some common preoccupations regarding personal data privacy and public policy concerns before looking in detail at how a model for the encapsulation and servicing of personal data might be achieved that is consistent with political and social imperatives as well as data protection concerns.