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RE: People Care About Data Privacy, and It's All Open Access on Steem... Uh Oh?
That's what I have asked myself. An open blockchain the content of which is unencrypted is not the ideal platform for communicating with friends and family about private stuff. This is more like the newsgroups of old or Reddit. There are a lot of potential workarounds to hide the identities of everyone involved and encrypt the content, somewhat contrived, though. It would take some work to implement but anything is doable.
You can send encrypted memos as messages. :)
Yes, content could be distributed using in encrypted memos while dummy posts with dummy accounts as beneficiaries could be created to tap into the reward pool completely anonymously. All kinds of shenanigans could be handled by an app on behalf of the users to tap into the reward pool anonymously. Too bad Steem has no smart contracts, because much of that trickery would have to be done off-chain. It's not easy to create a Steem app that hides all user data from the public but it is completely possible. It is possible to do multisig-transactions on Steem.
See: https://steemit.com/piston/@xeroc/piston-how-to-use-it-for-multisignature-accounts
Actually, there is side-chain for smart contracts that is being built:
https://steemit.com/steemsmartcontracts/@harpagon/steem-smart-contracts-ssc-token-block-production-rewards-proposal-system
Thank you for informing us about that!
If it was encrypted, it would limit access and the data couldn't be displayed on the various frontends...
That would be the point.
You can communicate right now via the encrypted memo field in a transfer by prefixing the memo with a hash symbol (#).
That's right. I know about that feature. I was thinking about using it in an app that behaves like any social media app that allows conversations to be private.
That sounds like a wonderful app!