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MyData Global ry

MyData Global is an award-winning international nonprofit, based in Helsinki, Finland.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Dec 2025 · MyData Global's work, digital omnibus

Meeting with Antti Timonen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen), Fausto Matos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

3 Dec 2025 · Exchange of views on MyData Global’s activities and the Commission’s data portfolio

Meeting with Antti Timonen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen), Fausto Matos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

17 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on MyData Global's activities and the Commission's data portfolio

Response to European Data Union Strategy

19 Jul 2025

The attached Roadmap describes how a human-centric approach to data policy and services can foster European innovation and competition while strengthening digital sovereignty and reinforcing European values. It provides a of recommendations and concrete actions for pursuing this through the European Data Union Strategy. Moving beyond principles, this Roadmap outlines how regulatory clarity and administrative incentives can support ecosystems that give European citizens and consumers meaningful control over their data to create economic value, enhance trust, and reduce regulatory burdens, particularly for SMEs and ethical innovators. The paper presents five key recommendations: A. Create market incentives for human-centric services by introducing procurement, tax, and compliance advantages for organisations adopting ethical, user-centric data practices. B. Set the next stage of AI development on a foundation of trust by embedding human agency and data sovereignty across the AI value chain, including support for fiduciary AI agents and public engagement mechanisms. C. Emphasise European values in the upcoming Digital Package by simplifying regulatory pathways for companies meeting human-centric standards and designing cross-sector data rights frameworks to harmonise compliance. D. Complement cloud investments with edge sovereignty by advancing hybrid infrastructures that combine cloud and sovereign edge solutions, ensuring individuals retain control over their data while enhancing resilience and reducing reliance on non-EU providers. E. Reassert European leadership through values-based partnerships by embedding human-centric data safeguards into international agreements, developing mutual recognition mechanisms for trusted intermediaries, and piloting sovereign data hosting arrangements. Drawing on over a decade of practical experience in the MyData community, the paper shows how a well-defined, operational human-centric approach can turn European values of into a competitive advantagealigning digital innovation, economic growth, and the rights and expectations of European citizens.
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Meeting with Yvo Volman (Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

16 Jun 2025 · Upcoming Data Union Strategy

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

13 Jan 2025 · Meeting at the request of MyData, to present the current subjects of activity of the organisation.

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

16 Apr 2024 · implementation of European data strategy

Meeting with Damian Boeselager (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Sept 2022 · Data Act

Meeting with Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION and European Trade Union Institute

4 Mar 2022 · Meeting on AI Act