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  "title": "Internet of Things and Blockchain: Legal Issues and Privacy. The Challenge for a Privacy Standard",
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        "heading": "Research Source",
        "content": "Nicola Fabiano · 2017 · Source: OpenAlex\n\nThe IoT is innovative and important phenomenon prone to several services ad applications, but it should consider the legal issues related to the data protection law. However, should be taken into account the legal issues related to the data protection and privacy law."
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        "content": "This research paper examines a critical privacy challenge related to KNOWLEDGE ASYMMETRY — the gap between what is known and what is practiced.\n\nanonym.legal addresses this through accessible pricing (Free €0 to Business €29) with Chrome Extension making anonymization as simple as browsing."
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        "content": "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.\n\nIrreducible 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.",
        "atomicTruth": "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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