Reclaiming our digital identity

As recent elections around the world have shown, information warfare is very effective. Data and personal information has long been a product sold by tech giants, much before psychographic data could be compiled to tilt elections.

The problem? Our digital identity and associated data is not our own. As a result, we are vulnerable to the machinations of the owners.  

So on Data Protection Day 2019, how can we move forward? We spoke with Alice Nawfal at uPort, ConsenSys’ self-sovereign identity platform, to find out how blockchain technology can protect our data and online identity.

• Also check out what the experts are saying about Data Protection Day