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Layers of privacy in the blockchain: from technological solutionism to human-centred privacy-compliance technologies.
- Source :
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International Journal of Law in Context . Mar2023, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p51-69. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Different organisations recently published reports identifying the challenges and potential solutions to ensure privacy in blockchain platforms. The proposed solutions frequently emphasise the role of privacy-compliance technologies to be incorporated into the blockchain design. Often, these solutions imply a techno-regulatory approach, ignoring that the level of privacy implemented in a blockchain involves legal and policy choices, disregarding the need to implement human participation and contestability in these platforms. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes to examine how privacy-compliance technologies can incorporate human participation and contestability: first, resorting to the interdisciplinary literature to examine how technological design could balance privacy with human oversight; second, discussing the challenges to ensure ex post contestability for aggrieved data subjects; third, examining the difficulties in identifying liable parties in a blockchain platform. The current disregard of the social and human element risks undermining the role of privacy-compliance technologies in the blockchain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BLOCKCHAINS
*DATA protection
*DATA privacy
*ECONOMIC activity
*DIGITAL technology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17445523
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Law in Context
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163338518
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552322000465