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California Consumer Privacy Act Explained

Consumers’ personal information is getting exploited more often than ever! One of the most recent examples of this is the Facebook scandal where information of around 540 million user accounts was compromised. The breach of personal information is not limited to any particular industry. It is happening across all sectors and all parts of the world.  Since 2018, Omnibasis empowered companies to comply with the GDPR laws passed in Europe. While the United States congress is debating on what to do, California is taking the lead in protecting consumer data from getting exploited and to make consumers feel more secure about their personal information collected by businesses. For that purposes new law has been introduced in California, United States and it is known as the California Consumer Privacy Act . The purpose of this new law is to make all businesses accountable for their handling of your personal data and to ensure they take the appropriate steps to monitor and protect the p...

Meet the new data privacy network powered by the blockchain

The limitations of traditional data practices and the negative issues associated with "sharing" your personal data has created the need for a cost-effective solution that enables enterprises to use the Internet and a secure distributed network like Blockchain as an efficient and effective means to manage data privacy in terms of access and use of personal data.  New likes like GDPR and US data privacy laws regulate the collection, storage, use and sharing of “personal data.” Personal data is defined very broadly under the law as any data that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person. And even personal data that has been pseudonymized can be personal data if the pseudonym can be linked back to a particular individual. The Omnibasis platform uses smart contracts for storing and sharing consumer preferences, consent and permissions (PCP) on the Blockchain. The smart contract is unlocking access to personal data only as agreed with the consumer, on an ad-hoc ba...