Decentralizing privacy: Using blockchain to protect personal data

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, SPW 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 180-184

  Zyskind, Guy ^a   Nathan, Oz ^b   Pentland, Alex Sandy ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bitcoin; Blockchain; Personal data; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CHAINS; COMPUTER PRIVACY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; TRUSTED COMPUTING;

BITCOIN; BLOCK-CHAIN; CURRENT MODELING; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SECURITY BREACHES; THIRD PARTIES;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 84945945234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPW.2015.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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