The age of AI agents is forcing us to rethink how digital relationships work. Portable identity. Machine-readable agreements. Verifiable proof. These are no longer nice-to-haves. They are becoming foundational. Because before AI can safely act on our behalf, we first need infrastructure that works on ours.

Who really works for you online? Most digital services profit from your data, not your interests. At DataPal, we believe personal data now matters too much for that. Here we explore why fiduciary is becoming the most important word in data, privacy and AI—and what it changes when technology is designed to work for individuals, not platforms.

…In fact any relationship that has a digital component benefits from both parties having their own relationship management capabilities. As peers. Not the current model in which one party has the tooling and the power, and the other can only do as they are allowed. That’s clearly where we are headed with DataPal.