kaal:claim:3782198-030

The GDPR's removal remedy cannot be enforced against a public blockchain: scrubbing private information would require more than half of the network's nodes to change their entire protocol and restart the chain, and would have to be repeated for every violating entry.

Source quote, verbatim

More than half of the network's nodes would be required to change their entire protocol to scrub the data and restart the blockchain. This would need to happen every time information was found on the blockchain which violated the GDPR.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), New tools: blockchain protocols, p. 30
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

Holds when

applies to open, uncensorable blockchains such as Bitcoin holding personal data

Classification

failuresupport: arguedfailure: unenforceable-erasure-rights-on-chainfamily: enforcement-gaptokenomics

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