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Economical benefits obtained by large Internet corporations from gathering and processing user information at a global scale led the European Union to legislate on behalf of individual rights and the privacy of personal information. Data collectors, in particular, must now obtain proof of the user’s consent for every single operation comprising their data. Considering the conflicting interests of all involved parties, we propose that consent should be stored in a blockchain. By being a distributed, immutable and verifiable ledger, the blockchain presents itself as an almost tailor-made solution to harmonize conflicting interests while enabling the regulators’ supervision.
This work is partially funded by the ERDF through the COMPETE 2020 Programme within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961, and by National Funds through the FCT as part of project UID/EEA/50014/2013.
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de Sousa, H.R., Pinto, A. (2019). On the Feasibility of Blockchain for Online Surveys with Reputation and Informed Consent Support. In: Novais, P., et al. Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence. ISAmI2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01746-0_37
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