Author, as appears in the article.: Daudén-Esmel, C; Castellà-Roca, J; Viejo, A
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Castellà Roca, Jordi / Dauden Esmel, Cristofol / Viejo Galicia, Luis Alexandre
Keywords: Smart contracts Privacy Personal data management General data protection regulation (gdpr)
Abstract: New digital technologies generate large amounts of information. This data is processed by Service Providers in order to improve and develop new services and products, but also to fund themselves. However, processing personal data may result in the extraction of sensitive information, which, in turn, may lead to jeopardizing the users' privacy. To mitigate this significant risk, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union elaborated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This regulation forces Service Providers to obtain Data Subjects' explicit consent prior to collecting and processing their personal data. Nevertheless, the GDPR's legislative text does not define how Service Providers must transparently demonstrate that they already have these consents. Moreover, most individuals do not know the rights they have over their personal data, neither does this regulation provide them with efficient methods to be aware of what third parties are doing with such data. In order to address this situation, we propose a lightweight blockchain-based GDPR-compliant personal data management platform. The new solution provides public access to immutable evidences that reflect the reached agreements between Data Subjects and Service Providers. In this way, Service Providers can effectively demonstrate that they are fulfilling the regulation, and Data Subjects are able to control and manage their personal data according to their legitimate rights. We have implemented the new system, and we have performed a detailed study which includes: GDPR-compliance, provided functionality, security and privacy issues, and the cost in terms of gas and US dollars of the different operations to be run on the blockchain.
Thematic Areas: Telecommunications Interdisciplinar Engineering, electrical & electronic Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Computer science, software, graphics, programming Computer science, software engineering Computer science, information systems Computer science, hardware & architecture Computer networks and communications Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: cristofol.dauden@urv.cat cristofol.dauden@urv.cat jordi.castella@urv.cat alexandre.viejo@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-0037-9888 0000-0003-2342-5100
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366423004140
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Computer Communications. 214 67-87
APA: Daudén-Esmel, C; Castellà-Roca, J; Viejo, A (2024). Blockchain-based access control system for efficient and GDPR-compliant personal data management. Computer Communications, 214(), 67-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2023.11.017
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2023.11.017
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2024
Publication Type: Journal Publications