GDPR Challenge's Saved On Blockchain- Giving More Rights To Data Subjects

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Organisations, both private and public, hoard personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a unified privacy regulation that introduced more privacy rights to data subjects by introducing new procedural and organisational obligations for data processors. GDPR curtails the unnecessary hoarding of data by data processors and also introduced a right for individuals to have their personal data erased.

However, technology has a habit of running ahead of legislators. For instance, take blockchain: it relies on a distributed ledger system that is decentralised and immutable, and is intended to be a permanent and a tamper-proof record that sits outside the control of any one governing authority.