Nigel Shadbolt appointed chair of mydata project | News & Reference | IWR - Information world review

"Professor Nigel Shadbolt has been appointed chair of an initiative designed to give consumers easier access to data held about them by businesses....The initiative, mydata, which was announced on earlier this week [April 13] by consumer minister Edward Davey, will enable consumers to use the digital data held about them by a whole range of businesses: financial, retail, telecoms and utility companies...."