Committed to advocating practical solutions to pivotal policymakers, the GIDE community is addressing three key areas: Promoting humane markets, empowering users as real consumers, and countering the negative impacts of surveillance capitalism. The misalignment between digital consumers and those who collect and monetize data about them has led to a wide variety of serious problems. Over three years, GIDE members have developed an economic, legal and political analysis and concrete proposals that aim to shift digital policies away from massive surveillance and data aggregation towards a regime that empowers all users as market participants with the market power and the access to skills to approve who access their data and on what terms..