JLINC Your Data
UK data portability is here, and accelerating. Smart Data initiatives are expanding across banking, energy, telecoms, pensions, property and other sectors. Meanwhile, AI agents are beginning to act on behalf of individuals and organisations. And customer-controlled data is becoming a reality.
But while we have invested heavily in moving data with APIs, we have invested very little in governing it after it moves
Without governance, authorisation and auditing, portability creates new trust gaps.
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.
Features include:
Attach machine-readable terms directly to data exchanges. Ensure permissions and obligations travel with the data rather than remaining trapped inside privacy policies and disconnected systems.
Create a verifiable chain of custody showing who shared data, who received it, under what terms, and when. Move beyond simple logging toward cryptographic proof.
Enable organisations to understand how data was accessed, combined and used by AI systems and agents. Create accountability for automated decision-making.
Works alongside Smart Data initiatives, digital wallets, personal data stores, consent systems, privacy signals, AI agents and enterprise platforms. JLINC complements existing infrastructure, rather than replacing it.
Smart Data solves how data moves. JLINC helps solve how trust moves.
