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ArcBlock Attends MyData Conference 2023

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ArcBlock's DID was recently recognized as one of the MyData Operators 2023. This recognition highlights ArcBlock's commitment to empowering individuals, strengthening their autonomy over personal data, and upholding the MyData principles. ArcBlock also attended the MyData Conference 2023 in Helsinki, Finland, an important event that brought together experts and innovators from many fields to discuss and advance human-centric personal data practices.

ArcBlock is a cutting-edge platform focused on decentralized identity (DID) and DApp development. It combines blockchain and DLT technologies with self-sovereign data services, enabling developers and businesses to give users complete control over their data. ArcBlock's ABT Node and Blocklet technologies make it easier for developers to realize this vision.

ArcBlock's DID Spaces is a new data protocol built on W3C DID (Decentralized Identifier) technology that lets users securely store and share their personal and application data. As a decentralized protocol, DID Spaces allows users to store and share data without relying on central servers or third-party services, protecting data privacy and security. DID Spaces also provides a network of message relay nodes through which users can communicate securely without a central server. This makes DID Spaces an ideal platform for secure data storage and communication.

ArcBlock joined MyData Global in 2020. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, this leading international nonprofit focuses on empowering people by strengthening their autonomy over personal data. By joining MyData, ArcBlock reinforced its mission to become a global leader in decentralized identity and to provide the technologies and tools that power applications, websites, and services in which users decide where their data goes.

As a MyData Operator 2023 award recipient, ArcBlock demonstrated its commitment to upholding the MyData principles throughout its operations and services. These principles include:

  • Human-centric control of personal data: giving users control over who can access their data and how it is used and shared.
  • The individual as the point of integration: creating new data-based knowledge tools without compromising privacy or increasing the amount of personal data.
  • Individual empowerment: enabling users to manage their personal data securely.
  • Portability, access, and reuse: enabling users to transfer their personal data.
  • Transparency: ensuring personal data is always used with consent and in ways that let users know where and how it is used.
  • Interoperability: encouraging interoperability among data, APIs, protocols, applications, and infrastructure.

ArcBlock's platform and ecosystem focus not only on developers but also on users, ensuring that data portability, transparency, and interoperability become standard features of every service. By working with MyData, ArcBlock and the MyData community can create a future in which users own and control their data.

The MyData Conference 2023 in Helsinki, Finland, was an important event that brought together experts, innovators, businesses, public-sector institutions, and civil society organizations from many fields. ArcBlock's participation underscored its commitment to accelerating the adoption of human-centric policies and practices.

The conference explored how the design, collection, processing, and analysis of personal data can serve human needs and experiences, and how people can be placed at the center of the data they share and the interactions they have. Embracing the theme “Human-Centric Data in Practice,” attendees discussed and exchanged common practices, standards, and technologies for building a human-centric data ecosystem.

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Events

  • MyData Conference 2023 confirmed

    MyData Global's annual conference in Helsinki, Finland, on human-centric personal data practices. ArcBlock attended; its DID Spaces was recognized as a MyData Operator 2023.