Personal Data Management Platform for GDPR Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data protection regulations, such as GDPR, impose significant technological and legal burdens on applications and third-party data providers, leading to costly security and storage solutions while still risking hefty penalties. Users lack the capability to collect, use, and process their own personal data, preventing them from legally contracting or licensing their data online.
Innovation Solution
A personal data management platform with a plurality of personal database servers (PDSs) connected to a personal data management component (PDMC) that manages, controls, and executes application services for users' personal data. Each user has a separate PDS configured as a personal data account, ensuring the user is the legal owner of their data and retains property rights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If applications and third-party data providers implement strict data protection procedures under GDPR, then data protection compliance is improved, but technological complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a personal data manager (PDM) as an intermediary system that mediates between users and applications. The PDM handles data protection compliance, authentication, and data exchange protocols, allowing applications to access user data without implementing complex security procedures themselves. This resolves the contradiction by shifting the complexity burden from applications to a dedicated intermediary service.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to self-manage their personal data through the personal data manager, allowing them to control authentication, authorize data access, and manage data exchange without requiring applications to implement complex data protection measures. Users retain control over their data while applications simply interact with the PDM API.
2Reliability
If applications implement costly security and storage solutions to comply with data protection regulations, then data protection compliance is improved, but operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The personal data manager serves as a centralized intermediary that provides secure data storage, authentication, and data exchange services. Applications don't need to implement their own costly security infrastructure since the PDM handles these functions centrally, significantly reducing operational costs for individual applications while maintaining compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The personal data manager provides multiple functions including data storage, authentication, authorization, and data exchange in a single universal system. This consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate costly systems into one multi-functional platform, reducing overall operational expenses for applications.
3Ease of operation
If users have direct control over their personal data through a personal database server, then data ownership and control are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The personal data manager enables users to self-service by providing them with direct control over their personal data through simplified interfaces. Users can authorize applications, manage data access, and control data exchange without needing to understand or manage the underlying system complexity. The PDM abstracts technical details while giving users full data control.
Solution Approach 2:
The personal data manager acts as an intermediary layer between users and the complex data management infrastructure. It presents users with simple control mechanisms while handling the complexity of database operations, authentication protocols, and data exchange in the background, thus improving ease of operation without exposing users to system complexity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications store personal data separately to serve different user needs, then application functionality is improved, but data redundancy and silos increase
Solution Approach 1:
The personal data manager merges data storage and data exchange functions into a single centralized system. Instead of multiple applications maintaining separate data copies, all data is stored in one place and accessed through standardized APIs, eliminating redundancy while preserving application functionality through the PDM's unified data access layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The personal data manager provides universal data access for all applications through a standardized interface. Different applications can access the same data through the PDM without needing separate storage systems, allowing the system to serve multiple application needs while avoiding data duplication. The PDM's multi-functional design enables any application to access any data through consistent protocols.
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AI summary
Method(s), apparatus, system(s) and platform(s) are provided for operating a personal data management component (PDMC) and provisioning/operating a personal database server (PDS) for a user in a personal database management (PDM) platform. The PDM platform comprising the PDMC communicatively coupled to a plurality of PDSs provisioned for one or more of a plurality of users. Each PDS configured for storing and exchanging personal data controlled by said corresponding user. The PDM platform communicates over a communication network with a plurality of applications. Each application is configured for providing an application service requiring access to personal data of one or more of the plurality of user(s). Provisioning a PDS for a user includes: receiving a request for creating a PDS for a user of the plurality of users; creating a PDS for the user based on scalable computing infrastructure, where the PDS is configured for a user to control automatic storage and exchange of personal data of the user with one or more of the applications; registering data representative of the user and PDS of the user; providing a PDS identifier to the user for enabling an application to store and access personal data in the PDS of the user based on personal data access control information of the application.