Ethereum Aims for GDPR Compliance Using a Modular Strategy

To ensure compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Ethereum ecosystem is exploring a modular approach to data management and privacy protection. A proposal from Ethereum community member Eugenio Reggianini outlines this strategy, which involves decentralizing personal data to various entities like wallets and DApps, using off-chain storage techniques with metadata erasure, and employing cryptographic role splitting. This aims to concentrate GDPR controller responsibilities on a limited number of entities while the broader network acts as processors or remains outside the regulation’s scope.