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Development of a Decentralized Personal Indefinable Information (PII) Management Systems Using Blockchain dBFT Consensus Algorithm

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Personal Identifiable Information (PII) management has been a major focus in data management due to the level of threat against it. Personally identifiable information is generally protected by an identity system whose roots can be traced to a centralized application whose data are saved in a database and can be retrieved through authentication using a username and password. Federated Identity management systems evolve because centralised systems get easily compromised and as a result, lots of PII data are exposed. Continuous breaches against these legacy systems have been the major concern of researchers, also the need for users to be in control of their PII data as stated in article 4 of GDPR. The aim of this research is to adopt a qualitative and design science research method to achieve the gap in the existing decentralized identity system which includes consensus algorithms, quantum-safe, compliance to GDPR policies, governance, development language, and scalability among others. This led to the use of Neo 3 blockchain in contrast to the common Ethereum and Hyperledger used by the existing system. This work has shown a new direction to safeguarding users’ data considering the technological factors in decentralized Identity management and has developed a framework that future work can lean on to develop a Decentralised Application for a dBFT PII management system.

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    Yunus Kareem & Hamid Jahankhani

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    Hamid Jahankhani

  2. Northumbria University London, London, UK

    Arshad Jamal

  3. Northumbria University London, London, UK

    Guy Brown

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  5. Northumbria Universityi London, London, UK

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Kareem, Y., Jahankhani, H. (2023). Development of a Decentralized Personal Indefinable Information (PII) Management Systems Using Blockchain dBFT Consensus Algorithm. In: Jahankhani, H., Jamal, A., Brown, G., Sainidis, E., Fong, R., Butt, U.J. (eds) AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33627-0_8

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