Why blockchain is the necessary safeguard against data breaches - SecurityInfoWatch

It’s just the latest example of yet another highly visible company leaking the data of millions of its users through a third-party security vulnerability. Consider that every time the company accesses an element of personal user data, this retrieval is guaranteed to be timestamped and permanently stored on a public blockchain where it cannot be altered.

Public blockchain can restore this trust; a company can state what data is shared and prove it through a neutral third party. Similarly, access to private data is controlled on a public blockchain using a variety of technologies.

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