Secure and decentralised storage of personal and confidential data with Solid
The Solid concept, coined by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, whose ideas helped found the World Wide Web, stems from his concerns regarding consumer data hoarded by companies, over which consumers no longer have any control. These data are stuck in silos, which means they cannot flow and collaborate.
Solid is defining a set of specifications for standards to ensure that people and businesses can keep their data secure and decentralised in a Solid Pod (Personal Online Datastore).
This vault technology has several advantages:
- Security: personal and confidential data are encrypted and stored in a personal data vault.
- Control: consumers have control over their own data vault and the data it contains: they decide which data they share with which companies, governments or organisations and for how long.
- Ease of use: both consumers and companies save time and money by being able to share reliable data more efficiently, in line with 'privacy-by-design'.
- Reliability: our company is a reliable partner that ensures sound management and operation of the data vault platform with legal guarantees ensuring that consumers and businesses retain control of personal and confidential data and security.
Data collaboration with vault technology
Renewed confidence in controlled data sharing and collaboration facilitates new applications that add value for consumers.
Offering innovative services enables companies to ensure consumers save time and money while using online services with greater control of their personal data.
For example:
- Sharing your career data with employers and other parties who may provide career optimisation services.
- Communicating a change of address, birth or death from the personal data vault to dozens of companies, governments and organisations at once.
- More efficient housing and renovation advice by sharing EPC, energy consumption, family composition, ...
- Sharing sleep and exercise data from smart watches with a GP, dietician or personal trainer.
Vault technology puts consumers back in control of their data and gives companies - with the consumer's explicit consent- access to previously inaccessible data.
