Browsing by Subject "Blockchain and the Right to be Forgotten"

The introductory section of the thesis discusses on the European General Data Protection Regulation, abbreviated GDPR, background information and historical facts. The second section covers basic concepts of personal data and GDPR enforcement. The third section gives detailed analysis on data subject rights as well as best practices for GDPR compliance to avoid penalties. The fourth section concentrates on the technical aspects of the right to be forgotten, solely concentrating on the technical aspects of permanent erasure/deletion of personal or corporate data in compliance with the customer’s desire. Permanent deletion or erasure of data, technically addressing the issue of the right to be forgotten and block chain network technology are the main focus areas of the thesis. The fifth section of the thesis profoundly elaborates block chain and the relation with GDPR compliance in particular. Then the thesis resumes explaining about security aspects and encryption, confidentiality, integrity and availability of data as well as authentication, authorization and auditing mechanisms in relation to the GDPR. The last section of the thesis is the conclusion and recommendation section which briefly summarizes the entire discussion and tries to suggest further improvements