Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted.
 

Blockchain and Data Privacy Law

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 In terms of privacy compliance, many present blockchain applications appear to be at best perplexing. Processing personal data directly on a public blockchain in the absence of clear legislative standards could entail significant economic risks. With that being said, by identifying decentralized data storage models and properly customizing data privacy rules, regulations, and recommendations for blockchain use cases, governments can encourage innovation.
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The best way to improve the draft would be to incorporate a better understanding of the technology you are writing about. You could start with a talk given by Christopher Ferris of IBM at the 2016 Software Freedom Law Center conference here at the law school. Chris explains pretty well there that distributed strongly authenticated ledgers, public and private, are a data storage paradigm—like the relational databases that have dominated enterprise computing for a generation,—with different and attractive properties in the contemporary computing context. Cryptocurrency is neither the most important nor a characteristic use of blockchain storage, which is why 99% of what you read about "blockchain" s nonsense.

A better grounding in the tech would probably lead you to reconsider some of the central paragraphs in this draft. If the purpose of the storage paradigm is to enable authenticated sharing of data that is intended to be shared in a distributed fashion—as distributed version control has enabled a revolution in software development practices, to take another example—then the privacy issues you are identifying here are largely immaterial. There are other questions that might well reward inquiry, but let's see where you want to take the draft when you know more about the primary subject.

 
You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable.

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