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ARTICLE · 29 JANUARY 2019

Blockchain Technology vs. GDPR: Conflict Resolution Required

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In fact, even hashing technology is only deemed to render data pseudonymous.

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Jean-Pie Gauci-Maistre
Jean-Pie Gauci-Maistre
Despoina Xynou
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Daniela Gaffarena
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as blockchain technology may both be lauded for having reached evolutionary milestones in their respective fields of data privacy and innovative technologies.  Combining these fields is however giving rise to unprecedented concerns. Although GDPR and blockchain technology protect data, ironically data protection compliance is turning out to be significantly challenging for government agencies and private companies alike when seeking to make use of hashing technology.  It is pertinent to observe that the GDPR was drafted prior to blockchain's insurgent impact in the digital world hence any tensions between the two had not as yet been envisaged. 

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