New era Internet technology 'Blockstack' which can be a countermeasure against centralized 'data monopoly' causing information leakage

In the IT industry "super winners" like " GAFA " are monopolizing the market. Under such monopoly situation there is a danger of large-scale information leakage due to the fact that the principle of competition does not work properly and that data is managed collectively on a central server such as cloud service . " Blockstack " is a non-centralized service based on " block chains " and is expected to replace the current centralized service.

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According to Ryan Shea of Blockstack Company, the problem of the current Internet 1 is that the data is placed on the enterprise cloud service, not on hand.

The current platform company keeps all customer data on one central server.

Placing all the data in one place will cause data theft and information leakage.

In hacking against Yahoo, the frequency and amount of fraudulent use and theft of data are increasing every year as account information of 3 billion people leaked at a time.

The total damage caused by data leakage worldwide is projected to be 2.5 trillion dollars (276 trillion yen) by 2020.

Even if there is no theft or leakage, for example Uber and other applications use the current location of the user, so all of Uber's employees can know the current location and destination of the user.

To solve this kind of problem, there is only "save your data yourself".

Blackstack disagrees with the current situation that many of the services we use on a daily basis hold a large amount of our information and we store and store the encrypted data in our own cloud We propose a solution that utilizes block chain technology that shares data with others and holds it.

Problem 2 of the current Internet problem is that data can not be transferred from application to application.

For example, when you want to stop a social networking service and switch to another service, you can not move photos and other data between services.

Regarding such a situation, Ryan Shea points out that it is "reducing competitiveness."

Advertising revenues for large companies such as Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Amazon have shown enormous growth. However, other companies are not.

Take Twitter as an example, in the past there were various Twitter applications, but as a result of changing Twitter API usage rules , they disappeared. When users concentrate on one service, competition may be lost in this way.

The solution to this problem is also to "save your data yourself."

If you do not like the service terms and charges, you can resolve the problem by simply transferring the data to another service if you save the data such as photos yourself.

The problem of the current Internet 3 is that the centralized platform defines how to use the Internet.

The software we currently use is basically downloaded directly from the company. In other words, if a company updates software or loses compatibility it will have to obey it.

This means that users can not deal with such things as strengthening charges, strengthening regulations, falsifying data, etc. on the software side.

There are instances in which Google made it impossible for unrelated people to access Google Docs.

The solution is still to own the software itself.

Ryan Shea argues that if it is possible for the user himself to select the version of the software or "the terms of service at any point in time", it is not necessary to follow a unilateral revision of the company.

" Decentralized application (DApp) ", "non-centralized / distributed application" will solve all of it.

Even if you have not heard of DApp, "E-mail" etc. used by many people is just a typical example of DApp. There is no specific company that provides e-mails, but you can use e-mail with a wide variety of computers and software, and users can choose services such as Yahoo, Gmail, and Outlook by themselves. These are all important features of DApp.

The cryptographic currency is also a good example of DApp, and the interest of the encryption currency has been rapidly increasing in recent years. It is said that the growing interest in DApp shows the beginning of the Internet of the new era.

Ryan Shea says "Blockstack provides a new model of Internet browser." With this browser your data and ...

You can manage data such as applications by yourself. If you feel that you do not like the fee or regulation of a particular social network service, for example, by having your own data, you can also migrate your entire data to another service immediately. In the new browser of Blockstack, it is possible to realize a new Internet which regained sovereignty to users from the usage form of the Internet depending on companies and software creators.

Blackstack's browser has already been released at the time of article posting.

The official page lists a comparison of Blockstack with Firebase, a development platform for Google-managed web services and smartphone applications. Applications created with Firebase are stored on Google's central server, using Google's certification, and charged for the transfer amount specified by Google. On the other hand, since the software created by Blockstack is a distributed application, the data is stored in a distributed manner and there is no charge for each transfer amount.