Developing a contact tracing app in a non-regulated environment.

Proximity-sensing apps were initially touted as a heaven-sent tool for managing the pandemic and its aftermath. They definitely had a role to play in this -- but only as an augmentation of traditional labour-intensive methods of testing, tracing and isolating.

GDPR, the law protecting personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA), now covers 18% of global data transactions, down from 22% in 2010.

Whether it’s Bluetooth identifier, location data or a MAC address, the ability for that information to move at great speeds and at scale through the Internet makes it an attractive asset for achieving mass coordination of the people that hold the devices.

An economy that can emerge from the legal ownership of personal data while be accessible to users and companies until the state of the ecosystem in 2020, with regulated data assets, and the challenges of contact tracing data and credit risk scores being stored on the HAT.

66% of countries have some kind of privacy or data protection laws in place, 10% have drafts that should be ready in the next couple of years, and 19% have no prospect of updating their laws soon.

Watch the Digital Identity in Technology session on the 4th Symposium of the Digital Person.

The initiative’s goal is to update a 20 years old legislation while assessing challenges risks, and opportunities the new data economy is bringing to the single market.

It's the unexpected decisions in our markets that make them sustainable. They're what Surveillance Capitalism is set to destroy.