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transactions themselvesand thusover theirownprivacy—provided theyunderstand
what opportunities and risks the technology as a whole brings with it (Bogdan
2018).This is also reflected in the threecasespresented.Theusersofpatientory, for
example, get increased control over their health data. In the sameway, the users of
MedBlock and of Kry or other telemedicine providers are also strengthened—for
example, by the gain in flexibility and confidence in their data security.
Users are currently accustomed tocentralisedcontrol systems invarious areasof
social life. This ismainly because responsibilities can be assigned directly.With a
blockchain, this is not the case. Participants should, therefore, alwaysbe aware that
the risk ultimately lies with each user himself or herself. Conversely, this means
that, especially in a transitional period, online consultingorganisationsmust ensure
that users canmake use of both blockchain-based and “traditional” forms of data
processing. On the platform side, the question of integrating previous data pro-
cessing into theblockchain arises. Furthermore, questionsofdigital ethics (Capurro
2017;Grimmet al. 2019)will also have to be discussed—especially regarding the
unavoidablepermanenceof the information storedon theblockchain.Governments
should also create legal models and instruments to provide a legal framework for
the management of digital assets. Regulatory supervision and thus also centrali-
sation, however, are controversial, as it takes the idea of decentralisation, which
underlies the blockchain technology, to absurdity.
Overall, it can be stated that private (and sometimes federated) blockchains
appear to be particularly suitable for data processing in digital services by com-
panies: these types of blockchains combine all the following advantages which
allowthoseseekingandreceivinghelp to interactwitheachotherasbest aspossible
without the risk of data being leaked to third parties: integrity, manipulation and
failure safety through transparency, decentralisation, majority principle and
cryptography.
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Digital Entrepreneurship
Impact on Business and Society
- Titel
- Digital Entrepreneurship
- Untertitel
- Impact on Business and Society
- Autoren
- Mariusz Soltanifar
- Mathew Hughes
- Lutz Göcke
- Verlag
- Springer Verlag
- Ort
- Cham
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-53914-6
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 340
- Schlagwörter
- Entrepreneurship, IT in Business, Innovation/Technology Management, Business and Management, Open Access, Digital transformation and entrepreneurship, ICT based business models
- Kategorie
- International