What if you could integrate with a single API, in minutes, to get Social, Financial, Health, Fitness and / or Music data with an individual’s consent and terms that work for you AND them?

What if that API had privacy and security built in at every level and put you in a great position to achieve GDPR compliance and keep your customers and their data safe and secure?

That’s a win, win, win! There are three winners in this scenario:

1. The individual: gets a copy of their data that they can reuse over and over to get more services and better experiences.

2. Your business / app: gets access to rich personal data in a private, secure and friendly way to build your experience or service.

3. Digi.me: as a tool / utility that makes all this possible and gets paid a nominal fee for doing so.

// What is so different about the digi.me approach?

For starters, most providers you integrate with (Facebook, Twitter, financial institutions, health providers, etc.) provide a single type of data — from their silo. There are various methods of gaining access to it (OAuth, SAML, proprietary), it comes in many flavors (JSON, XML) and is based on many standards and some proprietary formats.

Certain specialized data sets (like financial transactions) also come with complex legal agreements and up-front commitments on usage which can cost an arm and a leg to get started. Others require lengthy and costly due-diligence to prove that your methods of accessing, storing and exchanging this data are safe enough.

Digi.me has agreements and integrations in place to take care of getting data from these silos into the hands of individuals who have every right to it and an interest in reusing it across their lives. Digi.me takes care of creating and maintaining these complex integrations, securing the transactions and formatting the data into developer-friendly JSON backed by a vast ontology.

Digi.me is unlike these providers in that we DO NOT see, touch or hold the individual’s data! We merely help them connect to, get a copy of it and store it securely in a cloud location of their choice (Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive at the time of this writing).

Digi.me also has a Consent Access API that gives apps a simple and easy way to request access to this data from an individual under any terms they find mutually beneficial.

This is done through a Consent Access Request and is based on a Consent Access Contract which spells out which data your app is requesting, over which period, what your app will and will not do with it, and so on.

When a user accepts your request, a Consent Receipt is generated and recorded and a session is created which allows your app to get exactly the data requested in a nice and friendly format.