Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation by ENOTTY on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:28PM (#16642052)

Could smart contracts (maybe in addition to a Trusted Execution Environment) be used to enforce these sorts of guarantees?

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Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation by beefield on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:26PM (#16642574)

I'm slightly irritated that there seems not to be a single problem currently that someone would not be proposing cryptocurrency as a solution.

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Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation by izzygomez on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:40PM (#16643100)

To be fair to the previous commenter, they did not explicitly propose cryptocurrency as a solution; they're just asking a question. Also, cryptocurrency != blockchain technology.

That said, I do agree with your sentiment that the blockchain-as-a-solution space is getting a bit ridiculous. I can't imagine a way to translate this problem into a smart-contract-solvable form.

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Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation by mFixman on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:37PM (#16642136)

How would you enforce a smart contract guaranteeing that data was deleted and not copied?

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Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation by TangoTrotFox on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:38PM (#16642159)

This begins and ends with the fact that if you can see something, you can record it. The only way to prevent this is through on-site access only with a thorough physical search and no electrical devices allowed.

You can do some clever things to figure out who it is that leaks stuff, but that's another issue.

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