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Opacity

Opacity

Cryptographic permissioned block-chain technology that allows a company to differentiate itself by enabling their end-users to get insights in how their data are handled
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Value Proposition

Problem

Digital business is about trust and reputation. Today we live in the 'age of the customer', consumers are expecting a level of transparency and accountability of the companies they work with and trust their data to.

Solution

Opacity provides a transparency-enhancing tool in the form of a cryptographic scheme that enables companies to inform end-users about the actual data processing that takes place on their personal data. This is done by storing and serving encrypted meta-data, generated by those companies, about the data processing, in a secure and verifiable way. By removing any link between stored data, we go beyond traditional solutions. The result is transparency with maximal privacy for both the individual and the organization or commercial entity

Features

  • Enables companies to inform end-users about the actual data processing that takes place on their personal data
Supporting Technology
  • Blockchain
  • Sender component that transforms descriptions for users into events
  • Forking allows companies to distribute their processes with other parties where the end user can still get his entire history over all these parties
  • Log server stores the events from the sender. Later-on, it provides the events to the recipient component together with cryptographic proofs
  • Recipient retrieves events from the log server and checks the proofs
  • Key Management, Time Stamping Service and Visualizer/CLI (command line interface) that visualizes the output to the recipient
Standards & Compliance
  • Data Protection Act
  • GDPR