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MyData Platform Goes Online! Citizens in Charge of Their Own Data

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2020-08-28
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MyData Platform Goes Online! Citizens in Charge of Their Own Data

(Source: MyData)

 

After more than three years of policy planning, the National Development Council launched the MyData Digital Service Personalization Platform (MyData Platform) under trial operation at the end of July this year, establishing a model for reasonable use of sensitive public information.

People who use MyData to obtain personalized data need to pass online identity verification with citizen digital certificate, NHI IC card, TW FidO, etc., temporarily store the data in MyData personal cloud, preview personal data online, download to their own computer for storage, or carry barcode from MyData platform and go to local government for verify at the counter. Moreover, with informed consent of the citizen, the information is authorized to the third party providing the service to improve the online service experience.

Kao Hsien-Kuei, vice chairman of the National Development Council, said that government data is divided into three categories: Open Data, Shared Data, and Closed Data. Among them, open data provides free public de-identification data in open format and open authorization. At present, the government has released more than 40,000 pieces of data; shared data will allow limited use under certain restrictions under the future Open Data Law, government agencies can charge fees or reserve the right to withdraw; closed data is protected because of confidentiality and sensitivity, and it is not open to the public, such as state secrets and personal information.

MyData is to open the personal information that is not related to state secrets among the closed data for independent use of the citizens. It is equivalent to acting as an intermediary platform for downloading and exchanging data, connecting the data provider and the service provider.

Currently in the trial operation stage, 7 ministries including the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications will open 31 data sets, including personal household registration data, current households household registration data , cadastral and actual value data, images of national identification card, property data from the Ministry of Finance, personal income data, and housing tax payment certificates, etc.

The service providers include the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, as well as the four local governments which are Taoyuan City, Hualien County, Yunlin County, and Chiayi County, the state-owned enterprise CPC, and 7 banks joined through the Financial Supervisory Commission. There are currently 40 online services can be obtained using the MyData platform.

 

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MyData Digital Service Personalization Platform 

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