From the European Data Protection Law Review Issue 1 of 2018:
"Blockchains and Data Protection in the European Union"
Michèle Finck
This article examines data protection on blockchains and other forms of distributed ledger technology. Whereas the General Data Protection Regulation was fashioned for centralised methods of data collection, storage and processing, blockchains decentralise each of these processes. We engage with the resulting tensions in the below analysis.