Layers of privacy in the blockchain

From technological solutionism to human-centred privacy-compliance technologies

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ID12889754
AuthorsPablo Marcello Baquero (0000-0002-9681-357X, HEC Paris, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume19
Issue1
Pages51-69
Publication date2022-09-28
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Law in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-5523 • E-ISSN: 1744-5531
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1744552322000465
OpenAlexW4297474649
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

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

Blockchain · Business · Compliance (psychology · Computer security · Information privacy · Internet privacy · Privacy by Design · Privacy law · Privacy policy · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

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