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Blockchain Based Informed Consent with Reputation Support

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Digital economy relies on global data exchange flows. On May 25th 2018 the GDPR came into force, representing a shift in data protection legislation by tightening data protection rules. This paper introduces an innovative solution that aims to diminish the burden resulting from new regulatory demands on all stakeholders. The presented solution allows the data controller to collect the consent, of a European citizen, in accordance to the GDPR and persist proof of said consent on public a blockchain. On the other hand, the data subject will be able to express his consent conveniently through his smartphone and evaluate the data controller’s performance. The regulator’s role was also contemplated, meaning that he can leverage certain system capabilities specifically designed to gauge the status of the relationships between data subjects and data controllers.

This work was partially financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within project UID/EEA/50014/2019.

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  1. CIICESI, ESTG, Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Hélder Ribeiro de Sousa & António Pinto

  2. CRACS and INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

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  1. Hélder Ribeiro de Sousa
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Correspondence to Hélder Ribeiro de Sousa .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. BISITE Research Group, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Prieto

  2. International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India

    Ashok Kumar Das

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria , University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Ferretti

  4. Politecnico do Porto and INESC TEC , Porto, Portugal

    António Pinto

  5. BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca, AIR Institute - Deep Tech Lab , Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado

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de Sousa, H.R., Pinto, A. (2020). Blockchain Based Informed Consent with Reputation Support. In: Prieto, J., Das, A., Ferretti, S., Pinto, A., Corchado, J. (eds) Blockchain and Applications. BLOCKCHAIN 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1010 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23813-1_7

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