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Hard truths about the data sustainability amidst the big data craze
Uncontrolled data collection and storage have economic, ecologic, and social drawbacks. And the solution to those challenges is data sustainability! Be careful what you wish for Our digital world is built on data. The adage of recent years was that the more amount of data you collect, the better. After

A privacy-driven ecosystem for a sustainable data economy
Data governance is a fundamental concept that must be addressed globally as data resources become increasingly essential in today’s world. However, there are several problems with data governance, including uneven data rights and conflicting interests between the players in the data economy. The regulations for how governments and businesses gather

In conversation: the Chaos Computer Club, transparency, and data income plans
Towards the end of 2021, I spoke with Julio Santos, the technical cofounder of Fractal – creators of the Fractal Protocol – on some of the essential topics in data sovereignty, privacy, and security. As with my organization, polypoly, we have concerns over the free access significant companies have over

In conversation: Facebook, data sovereignty, and why GDPR is flawed
In recent weeks, the topic of data privacy, data security, data sovereignty, and how social media platforms harvest and use our information has reared its head again. The most recent Facebook whistleblower, who divulged how the platform knows it is responsible for helping to create divisions through its algorithm, which

GAIA-X and HEALTH-X dataLOFT add polypoly as a consortium partner to give citizens control over health data
GAIA-X – a funding competition associated with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) – has published the outlines for its first and second approval tranche, and polypoly is part of it as a consortium partner for the HEALTH-X dataLOFT project. GAIA-X is a project that aims

In Pod we trust: towards a transparent data economy
polypoly Cooperative publishes a technical white paper featuring its core technology, the polyPod. The cooperative is the first of its kind: A pan-European data cooperative in which shareholder-members own and profit from the underlying technology. Download now! Things are totally out of control. We don’t know who has our data,