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What is Tapmydata?

As Web2 has evolved over the years, it has quickly become a centralized space for companies to abuse users’ data. This is all achieved by said members not fully understanding what they are agreeing to when signing up for a service, which can be damaging for the individual.

This is where Tapmydata (http://tapmydata.com) intends to step in and provide an all in one solution to the problem. By using a unique framework of tools, ledger, and decentralized protocols, people will be able to seamlessly reclaim their digital identity, crystallize unique verified elements of consent in an NFT, and provide a new, transparent channel for legitimate counterparties to blend data and exchange value.

Data is the new DeFi

Not everyone has crypto to stake, but we all have data.

Problems around data value, privacy, and security are rooted in the original design of digital markets – central silos, bad actors, and bots – and solving them is one of the biggest prizes of Web 3. Our decentralized TAP personal data protocol and token break the old cycle of data abuse. Each user can manage their own digital identity, mint NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens) of Blockchain Verified Consent, and license this for use across the web, receiving value (ERC20 tokens) from organizations.

How does this work in practice? If you’re a new or existing user of the Tapmydata mobile app, you use it in the same way to request data, add personal credentials and ID, and store this in your secure wallet. We have no access to any of the keys or data.

The app awards TAP tokens for activity which benefits the community, like sharing data or verifying credentials. You can then use these tokens (or buy more) to mint your own Blockchain Verified Consent artefacts. These are what organizations purchase for use in targeted marketing, also using the tokens.

While projects like Brave and Swash have helped make people aware their data has value and this can be realized through crypto, they still work within the limits of the current AdTech system; I get paid for my attention, or for my browsing history to be sold to advertisers.

With the Tap Protocol, token, and ecosystem, we never forget it's your data. We will provide you with control, and the tools to offer Organisations 3 choices:

SEND: Give me my data.
DELETE: It's not yours so get rid of it.
LICENCE: Agree terms to pay me for it.

Organizations are obliged to meet the first choice in the most frictionless way possible to you, data is too valuable to make the second option a default for them, while the solution is to engage with Web3 citizens and find a fair, transparent price for your data, on your terms. Read more (https://docs.tapmydata.com/).

Bounty Campaign - https://beta.bounty0x.io/hosts/TAP%20Token

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Do you have a bounty campaign? ;D

Troy Norcross's full Business Strategy Surgery interview with Tapmydata CEO, Gilbert Hill, drops tomorrow at 12pm GMT! They discuss privacy in the digital age, consent, the #digitalservicesact, Tapmydata's impact on consumer awareness, and much more! Please follow Troy (https://twitter.com/troy_norcross), Gilbert (https://twitter.com/GilbertHill), and Tapmydata (https://twitter.com/tapmydata) for more info!

Very very soon! It will be launched on Bounty0x (https://bounty0x.io/). I will keep you updated on here as well as our Twitter (https://twitter.com/tapmydata) and Telegram (https://t.me/tapmydataofficial)!

So it will be public token sale on Balancer and it will be an extremely simple KYC/AML solution for Balancer Liquidity Pools. What exactly this KYC/AML solution will looks like?

Correct. The KYC/AML solution is very simple and can be achieved through our app which is live on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tap-my-data/id1436042237?mt=8%20%E2%80%A6) and Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.taprewards.app). You can enter your details there and be ready for the 14th of December! :)

If you want to post some images in your ANN thread, you can purchase copper membership here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote. Because there are a lot of DeFi-related projects here and you are competing with the interest of users here. So make your ANN at least eye-catching.

And as much as possible, the engagement with the community will be active all throughout your journey in crypto. Because normally, the interest fades after few months of existence here.

Thanks! I was looking into this but thought I should get something up for the time being just to showcase the project. I can work on the images soon.

Wait, after opening with how companies abuse user's data, and that they should reclaim their data, and how it is a main concern on internet 2.0 then you offered them a service to monetize their data, like... deliberately selling them to the same companies you said earlier?

Does it mean I can create/deploy my own NFT based on my identity?
Something like Digital Identity?
how to prevent misuse of my data by certain companies?

Hey Mike, good question. Basically, we are giving people the power back by allowing them to monetize their data and choose what specific data they want to use. The alternative would be companies selling your data without your knowledge and you getting nothing in return. However, if you use Tapmydata you don't have to monetize your data, you can use it to request what data companies have on you too and ask them to remove it, etc.

I think I've meet something like this before, but it was in a distant memory. You're not... happen to be the same team who propose to sell this "selective" data, right?

The data dialogue takes place between the 2 counterparties, the user (or data subject) and the organization (the data controller). They hold the public and private keys therefore we have no access to the keys and the data is effectively useless to any third party, including ourselves. We don't want to add to the big problem which exists, so we built the whole system to privacy by design principles with input from Dr. Ann Cavoukian.

If you don't mind to step back a little, the current model that exists were an user (let's call them 1st party) submit their data during account creation, a membership signup, etc. to a company or website (we call them 2nd party) like aaa, bbb, ccc (let's not mention any name here).

The current problem was, the second party usually sell these data to a 3rd party, like an ad service, or whoever interested.

And your solution was to sandwiched yourself between the 1st and 2nd party to be a buffer? Or was it between the 2nd and 3rd party?

While projects like Brave and Swash have helped make people aware their data has value and this can be realized through crypto, they still work within the limits of the current AdTech system; I get paid for my attention, or for my browsing history to be sold to advertisers. We’re creating the building blocks for people to play a new role with their commercially-valuable data, where they’re in the driving seat. Rather than see ads for something I bought last week, I can let companies know I’m in the market now to buy a kettle, hardware wallet, or an insurance policy. Advertisers can buy these consent artifacts at scale, incentivizing users with tokens.

We've got a background in AdTech ourselves so we have the relationships to help them change, rather than just try to destroy it. This is also good for advertisers - no more buying fake attention from bots. Each user can manage their own digital identity, mint NFT’s of Blockchain Verified Consent, and license this for use across the web, receiving value (ERC20 tokens) from organizations.

One of the things we're doing is enabling people to earn TAP by doing things that help the community - verify data, ID. Once they have enough they can use these tokens to mint NFT's which contain a license for companies to use their consent to get insights into certain bits of their data.

So in terms of 'ID', right now our digital identity is spread across 100's of companies, with a few gatekeepers like credit agencies who verify. Now with Tapmydata you create your own ID and choose to break off bits and license to third parties. This prevents misuse because companies only ever access, not own your data! You can read more here - https://docs.tapmydata.com

We make it easy for companies to provide data using our secure channel. It's really important to verify the person requesting data is who they say they are so we encourage them to verify their ID, then we use public-key cryptography to create a secure P2P channel between that person and the company so no-one else can get access, including Tapmydata.

So in short, your service runs around you placed yourself in between the 1st party (end user, member of social medias, etc.) and the 2nd party (the media provider)?

yes, currently the product is only concerned with the relationship with the direct data controller (2nd party). In the future, we are looking to solve the resale of data with our verifiable consent protocol to ensure ongoing value is returned to the user. More info can found here - https://docs.tapmydata.com or you can join our telegram channel (https://t.me/tapmydataofficial) to get answers from people like our CEO, CTO, Chair etc.

Ok, as interested and aware I am of this service for internet 3.0, I (and I think a lot of people who stumbled upon this thread too) am still curious on how deliberately selling our data would be beneficial?

Granted, we'll get some money for it, and it's better than get nothing, like how it happens nowadays, but shouldn't we agree on how this "trend" needs to be left behind? That the service needed to establish internet 3.0 are the ones that help 1st user keep their data to their own, and this service (that offers data selling) would just encourage the same trend to stay?

I understand your point of view for sure but I think honestly this trend will never truly be able to disappear, therefore we should get something out of it. However, if you use Tapmydata it isn't just about minting NFTs for data, it also about discovering what personal data organizations hold about you. This is called a subject access request, (known as a SAR or DSAR), and basically it's a request to a company or organization asking for access to the personal data they may hold about you. We also have haveibeenpwned built into the app, so you can see what data breaches are concerned with you.

I'll get back into the matter of internet 3.0 later, for now I was vaugh caught in your feature that I bolded.

Do you mean that instead of starting a whole new service, you can just ride the existing data? Uhh... how do I say this... suppose there is a platform called AAA that's existed since 2010, and I've been a member of it, never knowing what data of mine they use and for what. Or, in other case, a BBB social media that I use in 2025, few good years after your launch, but I didn't sign up through your platform, I directly fill my data on their page.

Does your service planned to be able to insert themselves between this companies and me (whenever I want and whenever I signed up to your platform) and I'll get control of my data?

What is so interesting about Tapmydata application and how it can help to discover what personal data organisations hold about you?

We use data portability, which is the right in GPDR to get your data from one party and seamlessly transfer to another. Our mission is to make that frictionless.

By joining our application you can fill out your details such as name, email address etc, and contact companies to ask what data they hold on you. Check it out, you can download it on Google Play or The App Store - https://tapmydata.com. I think you will have a better understanding if your able to have a play around with it.

I... prefer not to, at least until I know to some extent of who and what I am dealing with, thank you. I'm sure you can understand this.

If I may conclude from your brief description though, am I right to assume that filling some of my data would enable your system to match databases worldwide and pull information of which companies (plural) that holds data matched to the one I inputted?

Yeah, sure I understand, not to worry. Users request companies to be added via the app so if there's a company you would like added, that is how you do it. Our auto scraping tech gets the relevant details from the companies privacy statements and they are added to the database. We provide the channel for secure P2P Data Dialogue, but try not to get in the way :)

Basically, you would choose from a company on the app, and send a request to them. At the heart of the application sits your personal data locker where you can collate and verify your personal data. It is this data that is valuable and core to our proposition. Read more - https://docs.tapmydata.com

Interesting. I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about your  platform before, in a sense of bargaining power against similar platform. But it appears you ran on a different field than the other platform I knew.

Say, let's say I have a data on AAA, you gathered all of my info on their database, and your command, delete (as you featured on the opening post), will it only works to (according to your description) erase data that is not mine, like a case of a wrongfully used data (for example someone uses my credential to create a membership), or can I also use them to permanently and completely delete my user info on AAA, for a case where I was their member and no longer wanted to use their service?

Our first product, the Rights Management Platform was developed and launched with this being the core proposition, the first ‘real world’ experiment around data rights with 2 goals:

1: To establish whether people cared about their rights, would want to exercise them and control their data, given tools, and a frictionless user experience.

2: That organizations would be keen to demonstrate their commitment to data rights and best practice when presented with a dedicated channel designed with security and transparency as twin drivers. 

At the core of our rights platform is the Tapmydata app which operates as a directory of organizations, a personal data store, wallet, and secure end-to-end encrypted messaging platform for communicating with organizations and sending files back and forth.

In the back-end of the system is a secure platform for organizations to manage their team and respond to rights requests. Although the platform was built primarily for rights, it is in essence a secure request and response platform with crypto baked in and we recently deployed the product to customers in response to the COVID-19 system for contact tracing.

The Rights Management Platform for organizations is being expanded to support:

1. Data discovery (through our partnership with ESpyder)
2. Data redaction to reduce work-load for organizations returning data

The Rights Management Platform is also a flexible end-to-end encrypted communication channel. Following Covid, we successfully rolled out the platform to support the Church of Scotland with their track and trace requirements. You can see how this works from a consumer perspective in a short video or a demonstration of the organization's side of things (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysd_8M6ffA&t=30s&ab_channel=Tapmydata).

Make sure to join our Telegram, its the easiest way possible to talk to the team! - https://t.me/tapmydataofficial

Dear lord. LOL. I actually am fine with a simple yes and no, alongside with perhaps small explanation, but the full technical is always welcome and much appreciated. Once again, I am impressed.

So, just to be sure, it's a "yes, we can help scrub personal data upon request"?

And, just a little out of topic curiosity, what's the result of the "real world" experiment? Does real world people care about their data rights?

Haha, well we can provide the means via our app to 'scrub' your data but we don't actually do the scrubbing. You can contact businesses through the app and request data to be removed if you so wish.

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Earn $TAP tokens ahead of the sale by completing certain tasks!

Check it out:
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Sorry, I must have missed to notice your reply.

Pure curiosity, how reliable is this request? I mean, how likely will a company oblige to delete every bit of our data upon request? I read on other public forum a while back from someone who work as an IT (or something) of a company and they said some website actually neglect the cookies refusal, means it doesn't matter if we didn't accept the cookies, they'll still store the cookies in our PC regardless of what we choose, which means it is not impossible for some companies to "store" our data regardless what we asked them to.

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