Re:Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:39AM
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More importantly, if a project describes itself as using or being involved with blockchain, most of the time it is a scam - be it about scamming people for money or attention. I would be careful before getting tainted through association.
Re:Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
by godzillabrennus on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:44AM
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An audit log on blockchain with a decentralized data exchange would be a viable use case for this kind of application to build trust on the network but also provide GDPR compliance.
> Hu-manity.co has ... designed new intelligent contracts on blockchains which humans can use to negotiate new terms of consent and authorization with corporations so that inherent human data can be respected as legal property.
It's great that people are serious about this, but extreme care should be taken with the latest tech hype! Blockchains are (by design) are 'out there', which means that once consent it given, that consent is 'out there' for all time. Blockchain also rather public, so it would seem rather easy to 'harvest' who has consented to what...
... unless I missed something?