{"id":351,"date":"2017-12-21T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-12-21T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T09:43:42","slug":"blockchains-and-data-protection-in-the-european-union-by-michele-finck-ssrn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union by Mich\u00e8le Finck :: SSRN"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1>Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union<\/h1>\n<div class=\"reference-info\">\n<p><a class=\"btn-link\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3080322##\">Max Planck Institute for Innovation &amp; Competition Research Paper No. 18-01<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"note note-list\">31 Pages\u00a0Posted: 6 Dec 2017\u00a0Last revised: 16 Dec 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"authors\">\n<h2><a title=\"View other papers by this author\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/cf_dev\/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1689356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mich\u00e8le Finck<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; University of Oxford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Date Written: November 30, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"abstract-text\">\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>This paper examines data protection on blockchains and other forms of distributed ledger technology (\u2018DLT\u2019). Transactional data stored on a blockchain, whether in plain text, encrypted form or after having undergone a hashing process, constitutes personal data for the purposes of the GDPR. Public keys equally qualify as personal data as a matter of EU data protection law. We examine the consequences flowing from that state of affairs and suggest that in interpreting the GDPR with respect to blockchains, fundamental rights protection and the promotion of innovation, two normative objectives of the European legal order, must be reconciled. This is even more so given that, where designed appropriately, distributed ledgers have the potential to further the GDPR\u2019s objective of data sovereignty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3080322\">Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union by Mich\u00e8le Finck :: SSRN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union Max Planck Institute for Innovation &amp; Competition Research Paper No. 18-01 31 Pages\u00a0Posted: 6 Dec 2017\u00a0Last revised: 16 Dec 2017 Mich\u00e8le Finck Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; University of Oxford Date Written: November 30, 2017 Abstract This paper examines data protection on blockchains and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}