A Privacy-Protecting Data-Exchange Wallet with Ownership- and Monetization Capabilities

As people engage increasingly with Internet services such as social media, search, and e-retail, they create considerable quantities of data. Well known social-media companies and a secretive data-brokerage industry monetize this personal data without explicitly consulting-or sharing the revenues wi...

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Main Authors: Norta, Alex, Hawthorne, Daniel, Engel, Serafin L.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological system modeling
blockchain
Contracts
data exchange
Data models
de-centralized
Ecosystems
peer-to-peer
smart contract
Social network services
Stakeholders
Unified modeling language
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Summary:As people engage increasingly with Internet services such as social media, search, and e-retail, they create considerable quantities of data. Well known social-media companies and a secretive data-brokerage industry monetize this personal data without explicitly consulting-or sharing the revenues with-the users who produced the content. Such is the dominant personal-data ecosystem. There is clear need for a transparent and fair data exchange based upon the expressive consent of the Internet users producing the data. This shortpaper specifies such a system built upon a user-controlled "DataWallet" and a blockchain-based smart contract system to allow transparent and mutually beneficial exchange of data between consenting parties. We detail the requirements of such a system, its necessary structure, and the dynamic interactions of its components and stakeholders through an example focusing on a simple exchange of data for DXT (the data exchange token).
ISSN:2161-4407
DOI:10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489551