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Saturday, July 5, 2025

#RSAC: The Privacy and Blockchain Paradox - Infosecurity Magazine

There has been much activity in recent years around the use of blockchain to provide more integrity and privacy to transactions, but there are some privacy issues organizations need to know about.
In a session at the RSA Conference 2022, Jim Amsler, director governance, risk and compliance, at BDO and Greg Schu, partner, national compliance lead, at BDO Digital, outlined the opportunities and the challenges of blockchain from a privacy perspective.
Schu explained that one of the goals of blockchain is to try to improve security for transaction information and the reliability of transactions. A distributed ledger is part of blockchain approaches, which basically means that all the data doesn't sit in a single location; rather, it is distributed in an approach that helps to provide more resiliency. The concept of a 'smart contract' is increasingly part of blockchain technologies today as well, providing a policy language for how operations should occur. Finally, with blockchain, there...



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