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Does the EU GDPR Make Public Blockchains Illegal?
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a sort of an EU assembly composed of national data protection authorities, has published draft Guidelines on applying the EU’s primary data protection law (the GDPR) to “blockchain technologies.” The European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) rightly raised an alarm, noting that the Guidelines call for deleting entire blockchains to achieve GDPR compliance. As some of you may know, I work extensively on EU data protection law (see my EUTechReg.com), and I thus thought it would be useful for me to explain why the EDPB document is as problematic. I should also add that the document is still formally a draft subject to consultation, to which everyone can respond.