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A Review of Applying Blockchain Technology for Privacy Protection

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Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS 2019)

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With the continuous development of blockchain technology, more and more attention has been paid to the application of blockchain in privacy protection. Through a comprehensive study of privacy protection issues in payment transactions, electronic voting, Internet of Things, intelligent systems and data sharing, this paper summarizes several relatively new privacy protection technologies based on blockchain in various application fields, which provides an important basis for choosing appropriate privacy protection technologies of blockchain in different situations.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61602261.

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  1. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210003, China

    Haoyu Ji & He Xu

  2. Jiangsu High Technology Research Key Laboratory for Wireless Sensor Networks, Nanjing, 210003, China

    He Xu

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  1. Faculty of Information Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  3. School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Omar K. Hussain

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Ji, H., Xu, H. (2020). A Review of Applying Blockchain Technology for Privacy Protection. In: Barolli, L., Xhafa, F., Hussain, O. (eds) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing . IMIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 994. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22263-5_63

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