Usage-based Revenue Model
Smart Contracts that “surround” your data with a controllable privacy layer can also track requests. With tracking, you know what information is requested and who is requesting the information. The Smart Contract that controls this interaction could ask for a modest fee from the user to cover publishing costs. Here is how a fee-required request works.…
Protecting data with Policies
Information about your lifestyle and preferences is hard to control across many websites. The way we do this today is functional but cumbersome because the underlying databases are being synchronized. Synchronizing means that data is being copied and keeping the copies up to date is the responsibility of the data vendors. The technical staffs work…
Applying Your Terms of Use
Terms of Use for internet-based data are enforced with written legal agreements today. This approach works well when data is centralized but can break down when copies of data are involved. Policing these policies can be expensive for the company responsible for the data. It is difficult to ensure that those who handle your data…