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Private data, a built-in “GDPR compliant” solution for #hyperledger Fabric
▻https://hackernoon.com/private-data-a-built-in-gdpr-compliant-solution-for-hyperledger-fabric-5

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The next release of Hyperledger Fabric v1.2 (just released) introduces private data. This feature can fix a bunch of confidentiality issues which are present with the technology today. One of those is #gdpr compliancy. The following article requires some general Fabric knowledge. If you are not yet familiar with Hyperledger Fabric, I suggest you watch this video series or the introduction on the official documentation.Quick note: I’m not a GDPR expert. The way you implement this technology is not guaranteed to be GDPR compliant. But private data enables GDPR compliant #blockchain applications.What’s that? SideDBs? Private Data on a blockchain?The current way of implementing confidentiality is by using channels. It is discouraged to create a lot of channels for a large network just to (...)

#hyperledger-fabric #privacy

Ghosts in the Machines « Der Feuilletonist
▻http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/2013/10/10/ghosts-in-the-machines

The English original of Evgeny Morozov’s essay on technology and neoliberalism from the Feuilleton section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on October 10th 2013

To listen to Silicon Valley and its cheerleaders, to talk technology today is to talk innovation, progress, emancipation. By analogy, to talk anti-technology is to succumb to a reactionary, anti-progressive view that offends the very spirit of Enlightenment. It is to be a Luddite and an enemy of human betterment.

#critique_techno