JLINC Your Data
JLINC has deep roots in Personal Data and Internet Identity. The company began with a mission to create a protocol enabling permission and provenance to be maintained across platforms, allowing businesses to function at optimal levels while respecting the sanctity of the individuals and their data. These efforts pre-dated state and international regulations - such as GDPR, CCPA, and all other US regulatory mandates.
Personal data is typically gathered by organisations under opaque agreements, with legally dubious ‘consents’; and then held within their siloes as an economic asset that they own. This model reduces trust on The Internet, and less data flows in value creating ways than it could.
As the data is siloed and disconnected from its source, data quality is typically very poor. This limits it’s utility and the returns from its use.
The current model around personal data is akin to ‘The Wild West’. The only beneficiaries of the current model are ‘big tech’.
Personal data sourcing, management and use needs a radically different approach; one in which data provenance, data portability, data interoperability, and equitable data exchange are pre-eminent.
The JLINC protocol enables that much improved approach, addressing all four of those pain points in ways that easily fit into/ improve existing processes.
Addressing these pain points with these solutions can turn around the declining trust on The Internet and turn that into a positive sum game.
UK.Gov holds the view that freeing up data and making it ‘smart’ will add some 1% to gross domestic product.
Interoperability is the main driver for the development of the JLINC Protocol. It offers data integrity based on fully auditable data agreements across multiple platform. JLINC holds a fundamental patent on auditable internet data contracts. JLINC provides unique state-of-the-art embedded software for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of Personal Data in high-volume, multi-source environments.
With JLINC when data enters a system, its provenance is preserved: stewards of that data will always know where it came from and who is responsible. JLINC enables the data creator to be notified in real time. The decision can be made if that sharing is acceptable and can be approved or permission can be withdrawn.
JLINC enables programmatic compliance with global privacy laws, ensuring that every use of Personal Data respects user rights of origin and the latest regulations. This encompasses GDPR, CCPA, and all other states permission and consent mandates.
MyTerms is a new IEEE standard for personal data set to be released on Jan 22, 2026 in London. DataPal is currently implementing MyTerms using JLINC in the UK and EU.
JLINC has developed an open-source service layer, called FedID, that can be used to enhance new “self-sovereign” DID methods. A DID is the standard decentralized digital identifier based on cryptographic keys. Keys are needed for password-free login and are the basis for all secure data authorization and control. FedID resolution is federated across participating servers so that it is genuinely decentralized without a blockchain.
MyKey is FedID represented by a simple icon that can be easily added to login with Google or Facebook, using standard OAuth. FedID is built on, and interoperable with, OAuth using OpenID Connect, which is a form of OAuth. This makes MyKey and FedID easy to adopt, eliminating passwords. The MyKey authenticator app is in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store now. Once a user has a MyKey app, or any other FedID-enabled app, such as DataPal, they can use it to sign MyTerms, as well as other JLINC contracts.
With JLINC trust is built into every interaction. Control is maintained on all data journeys, from collection to every new destination, with full visibility and choice. With JLINC integrity is ensured in data portability and data interoperability. This creates equitable data exchange.
