This workpackage is exploring the benefits that blockchains can deliver in terms of privacy and legal compliance and the challenges it introduces when dealing with personal and confidential data.
Two accepted book chapters
Two accepted book chapters will appear in “Building Cybersecurity Applications with Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts” edited by Nour El Madhoun, Ioanna Dionysiou, and Emmanuel Bertin.
Danaja Fabčič Povše, Alfredo Favenza, Davide Frey, Zoltán Ádám Mann, Angel Palomares, Lorenzo Piatti, and Jessica Schroers. Building Cybersecurity Applications with Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts, chapter Data Protection Challenges in Distributed Ledger and Blockchain Technologies: A Combined Legal and Technical Analysis. Springer, 2023. [ bib ] |
Danaja Fabčič Povše, Alfredo Favenza, Davide Frey, Zoltán Ádám Mann, Angel Palomares, Lorenzo Piatti, and Jessica Schroers. Building Cybersecurity Applications with Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts, chapter Solutions to Data Protection Challenges in Distributed Ledger and Blockchain Technologies: A Combined Legal and Technical Approach. Springer, 2023. [ bib ] |
Below is an except from our first chapter highlighting the challenges posed by Distributed Ledger Technology to GDPR.
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And these are the solutions we identified, and that we will are developing in the other work packages.
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PhD Thesis of Damien Franchi
Presentations
- « Blockchain et Smart Cities : Source d’enjeux juridiques et techniques du local à l’international », 9/11/2022, Colloquium, Rennes, Contribution to the PILAC project (Penser l’international au local). To be published
- « L’intégration européenne par la recherche d’une identité numérique européenne confrontée aux traitements des données à caractère personnel», 9/05/2023, Bayonne. Contribution from a young researchers’ day on identity and European integration. To be published
Blockchain and Privacy International Workshop
Participation of Sandrine Turgis, Brunessen Bertrand, and Davide Frey (remote attendance) to the workshop that took place Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Massachussets/Etats-Unis), 22 May 2023.
Presentation by Sandrine Turgis “Blockchain, as a technological tool with strong ambivalences for fundamental rights and especially data protection“
Initial Analysis
Below is a summary of our initial analysis.
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