Yes, I Do: Marrying Blockchain Applications with GDPR

Presenter Information

Benjamin Schellinger, FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FITFollow
Fabiane Völter, University of Bayreuth, FIM Research Center, Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FITFollow
Nils Urbach, Frankfurt University of Applied SciencesFollow
Johannes Sedlmeir, Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FITFollow

Location

Online

Event Website

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Start Date

3-1-2022 12:00 AM

End Date

7-1-2022 12:00 AM

Description

Due to blockchains’ intrinsic transparency and immutability, blockchain-based applications are challenged by privacy regulations, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Hence, scaling blockchain use cases to production often fails to owe to a lack of compliance with legal constraints. As current research mainly focuses on specific use cases, we aim to offer comprehensive guidance regarding the development of blockchain solutions that comply with privacy regulations. Following the action design research method, we contribute a generic framework and design principles to the research domain. In this context, we also emphasize the need for distinguishing between applications based on blockchains’ data integrity and computational integrity guarantees.