[ANN] DATONA.IO: Control your global data footprint

[dnpotter]

DATONA.IO

https://datona.io


Providing the tools for you to protect your digital information, enabling you to share it on your terms and placing you back in control.


At Datona Labs we believe we should all have complete visibility and control of our global data footprints so we've created the concept of Smart Data Access.
This uses smart contracts to control who can access which parts of our personal information and under what conditions.  
We want to replace the terms of current written contracts with a smart contract and hold the information in a digital 'vault' controlled by that contract.
In our solution, no organisations store our information outside of the vault; instead they access it from the vault whenever they need to, anytime 24/7, provided the contract allows it.

Our solution, Datona IO, is an open platform constructed from a smart contract enabled blockchain and a marketplace of third party data vault nodes.
Data vault service providers and private organisations will be able to deploy their own data vault nodes on the network and DApp developers will be able to build and deploy their own Smart Data Access enabled applications.  
Datona Labs will lead the way with Datona Vault and Datona Identity - projects designed to control our personal identity data.  
These are described on our website and in our white paper.


We invite you to visit our website, read our white paper and provide your feedback as we share our project publicly for the first time.  
Our next major milestone is our seed funding round in mid-2019.
Please connect with us through bitcointalk, our discord channel or via email.  We look forward to hearing from you.



Smart Data Access


Information is temporarily stored on datona.io and is protected by a Smart Data Access Contract (S-DAC).  
The S-DAC specifies the terms and conditions for the use, update and expiry of the information.  
It is written in code and deployed on the platform's blockchain.

The platform automatically enforces the contract terms permitting access to the information only if the terms allow.  
On contract expiry, the platform deletes the information.

The S-DAC contains a summary of the terms for presentation to and acceptance by the user.  
S-DAC templates are designed to be public allowing them to be independently reviewed and validated by the expert community.  
This assures the owner and requester that the contract code is valid and that the textual summary is a true reflection of the code.

Since the Datona.io platform is public, the owner and requester can query it at any time for all their active S-DACs, and thereby obtain the current state of their digital information footprint.  
They can also obtain their data sharing history by querying for expired contracts.



Features


Control of Data

Places personal data back into the owner's hands
Enables individuals to control who has access to their data and under what conditions
Enables individuals to revoke or extend access at their discretion


Visibility

Enables individuals to see who has access to their data, globally, at any time
Enables individuals to survey their history of data-share transactions


Monetisation

Enables individuals to lease or sell their data to projects and organisations
Connects organisations around the world with individuals willing to share their data


Data Protection

Gives organisations off-the-shelf compliance with data protection regulations
Brings peace of mind to individuals by giving them control and visibility of their global data footprint


Quality of Data

Helps keep an organisation's customer database up-to-date
Deletes data that is no longer controlled by a contract
Ensures data accuracy by integrating trusted verification


Security

Organisations can offload data security to a cloud service for customer data
Data and access keys are distributed across multiple sites


Intelligent Access

Restrict access to specific individuals or roles
Control which individuals or roles have access to which parts of the data
Dynamically modify access based on a work-flow or external events
Create multi-signature access models


Digital Identity

Proof of ID, qualifications, role
Pre-verified KYC data
E-signatures
Electronic ticketing schemes
Object provenance
Copyright support


Secure Messaging

Supports secure, authenticated messaging for any application
Secure file sharing




Website

https://datona.io


Discord

https://discord.gg/sSnvK5C


Email

info@datona.io

[dnpotter]

This uses some sort of blockchain. Not bitcoin, that would be too slow. Continual access will be required to get at the data.

Read access time is independent of the block time.  This is true for all public blockchains since the block data is public.  Datona vaults and safes are full nodes on the network meaning they have a full copy of the block data.  Read access is therefore simply local access of the block data.

Write access time is dependent on the block time of course but a 10-minute block time is probably fast enough for most Smart Data Access purposes.  Datona.io needs smart contracts on its own blockchain.

[dnpotter]

The data itself isn't stored on the blockchain - the Smart Data Access Contract (S-DAC) is.  The data is stored on one of the secure cloud-based vaults, on your own private safe or on the requesting organisation's private safe.  In all three cases access to the data is managed by the SDAC.  Since the SDAC is on the blockchain it can be viewed or updated by the data owner at any time.  Hence the owner retains control over access to their data and can modify the access conditions or terminate the contract whenever they like (provided the terms of the contract allow it).

[Stevieb777]

So rather than your personal data being replicated on servers all over the globe and open to abuse, your data is locked away securely in a vault, and access to it is controlled on your terms that are coded into a smart contract?

I guess the platform/app provides an easy to use interface so that we don't all have to be experts in how to write smart contracts?

[dnpotter]

I guess the platform/app provides an easy to use interface so that we don't all have to be experts in how to write smart contracts?

Smart data access contracts (S-DACS) will not likely be chosen or specified by the end user - needs far too much expertise - but, like existing Ts&Cs, the organisations requesting the data will likely to specify them.  Most organisations will be able to choose an off-the-shelf template developed by Datona or the general community.  Others may need to reach out to the expert community to develop their own.

[JulesGoddard]

Looks great. Good luck with it. I think that you could be right about the speed. But ultimately, if it is fast, that would enable more opportunities because it could be used ‘while you wait’ etc 

[dnpotter]

??

[Stevieb777]

But how will the t’s and c’s be presented to the end user?

T’s and c’s are so lengthy and difficult to interpret that most people just skip passed them.

With them encoded in a smart contract will this make them even harder to read or will datona.io present them in  an easy to read manner?

[dnpotter]

But how will the t’s and c’s be presented to the end user?

T’s and c’s are so lengthy and difficult to interpret that most people just skip passed them.

With them encoded in a smart contract will this make them even harder to read or will datona.io present them in  an easy to read manner?

That's one of the key features of datona.io.  Transparency of T's & C's is one of the problems we are trying to solve.  The smart contract will contain (or be linked to) a simple textual summary of the T's & C's in ordinary language - not legalese.  This simple summary is what is presented to the end user, displayed by their app.  Something like a few bullet points.  (Their app may also be configured to automatically accept certain T's & C's that are personally acceptable to the user while warning about those that aren't).

The summary is independently verified against the contract code and the T's & C's to make sure it is not misleading.  

Hope that helps!