Smart contracts offer promise for facilitating and streamlining transactions in many areas of business and government. However, they also may be subject to the provisions of relevant data protection laws, if personal data is processed.
This research paper examines a critical privacy challenge related to KNOWLEDGE ASYMMETRY — the gap between what is known and what is practiced.
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The gap between what is known and what is practiced. Solutions exist in papers that practitioners never read. Attacks are documented that defenders never learn about. Rights exist that individuals never exercise.
Irreducible truth: Every other structural driver could theoretically be mitigated if knowledge were perfect and universally distributed. But knowledge is never perfect and never universal. This gap is the reason known solutions aren't applied, known attacks aren't defended against, and known rights aren't exercised.
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