PDEC (Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium) Legal Advisory Board (W1A)

Session Topic:PDEC Legal Advisory Board (W1A)

Convener: Mary Hodder, Judi Clark

Notes-taker(s): Markus Sabadello

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered: 

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

PDEC's mission:

There are different efforts + projects. As a consequence, there are also different local perspectives.

PDEC's desire is not to build any concrete things (trust frameworks, technology, etc), but:
 * to coordinate existing efforts, and help finding each other
 * to follow, track and educate about existing efforts and different views
 * to facilitate dialogue between the actors
 * to support new startups/initiatives to realize the vision
 * to bring together sociologists, technologists, lawyers, etc. working on personal data
 * to include people who are new to the circle but doing related work

Some concrete topics during the session:
 * multi-jurisdiction issues
 * multi-disciplinary groups with interdisciplinary focus
 * defining the new business layer (not just legal layer)
 * common elements of a trust framework
 * technologists (want to push things forward?) + lawyers (want to push things back?) need to work together!
 * how do we represent individuals?
 * legal practice becomes law
 * role of regulation (managing risk)
 * look at existing regulator models for telecom + postal interop
 * what is institutionally required for certain services + systems
 * what can individuals do? where are groups + capital required and where are they not required?
 * relationsip of IdPs to each other and to nation-states who set policies

Kaliya presented the "Personal Data Ecosystem Landscape" diagram explaining the conceptual relationships between different parties in the PDE.