Data back in your own hands

Dutch Data Vault Foundation

With everything you click, watch, read, or listen to, you leave behind data. By analyzing this data, companies can learn a lot about you. It reveals much about who you are: your tastes, interests, hobbies, secret desires, political preferences, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, and much more. Maybe more than you would like. This information is so personal that you should actually be able to decide what happens to it.

That's possible! By saving your data in a personal data store, you get back in control. Store data about yourself and decide for what purposes you use it. Voor recommendations of articles and videos? For advertisement that is entailed to your personal preferences? For a shopping experience that gives you only personal offers for products based on your taste, your shoe and clothing sizes and your favourite brands? For a personal health advice or an app that connects you to the right health or wellbeing provider? For the creation of your personal file for your search for housing? Everything is possible with the new personal data store!

Join and experience as one of the first how the new internet works!

Dutch Data Vault Foundation

The Dutch Data Vault Foundation is developing a new data infrastructure. Your personal data will be stored in an online vault, a storage space on the internet, where only you hold the keys. You decide with whom, for what purpose, and for how long that data can be used. This is a very different model from what is currently common on the internet and requires a lot of research and development. The Stichting Nederlandse Datakluis was initiated by the five major media companies in the Netherlands: DPG Media, Mediahuis, NPO, RTL, and Talpa Network. Deze mediabedrijven hebben dat gedaan vanuit de visie dat persoonlijke gegevens in de toekomst meer in handen van gebruikers zelf komen.

After two years of development the personal data store will be available by the end of the year. Media companies can use the personal data store, as well as other companies and organisations from multiple sectors. The Duth Data Vault Foundation, being a neutral and independent party, will take care of your interest as an individual and put your control over your personal data in the centre. This development was made possible by a European Subsidy from the Dutch program Kansen voor West and by the cooperation with the Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision, Mediaperspectives, ROM Utrecht Region, the Flemish Data Utility Comoany Athumi, SolidLab Flanders and several technical partners.

Please get in touch if you want to connect to the Dutch Data Vault!