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A new blockchain-based personal privacy protection scheme

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Nowadays, personal privacy disclosure issues become increasingly prominent in the process of data publishing. Targeting at this issue, a secure blockchain-based personal privacy protection scheme is proposed. In this paper, firstly, the information is stored in cloud service, and its hash value is used for the index, which is encrypted and stored on the blockchain. Secondly, based on the principles of cryptography and the characters of blockchain technology, we propose our scheme and use it to provide an access control mechanism for personal privacy. It can make the personal privacy protection easier and more efficient. At last, through our analysis, this scheme can sufficiently protect personal privacy in using mobile devices and provide a safe and trustworthy information acquisition method for data mining. More importantly, this proposed scheme also can provide a reliable and unique source tracing for multimedia copyright protection in terms of multimedia security.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the NSFC (Grant Nos. 61671087, 61962009, 61572246, 61602232), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2019XD-A02), the Open Foundation of Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Public Big Data (Grant Nos. 2018BDKFJJ018, 2019BDKFJJ010), the BUPT Excellent Ph.D. Students Foundation (Grant No. CX2019232), the High-quality and Cutting-edge Disciplines Construction Project for Universities in Beijing (Internet Information, Communication University of China), the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication (Communication University of China) (Grant No. SKLMCC2020KF006), the Scientific Research Foundation of North China University of Technology, the JSPS KAKENHI(Grant No. JP20F20080).

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  1. Information Security Center, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    Yu-Long Gao & Xiu-Bo Chen

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing, 100144, China

    Gang Xu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China

    Wen Liu

  4. School of Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China

    Wen Liu

  5. Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan

    Mian-Xiong Dong

  6. School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, 014010, China

    Xin Liu

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Gao, YL., Chen, XB., Xu, G. et al. A new blockchain-based personal privacy protection scheme. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 30677–30690 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09867-6

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