Is Your Favorite Fitness App Putting Your Personal Data At Risk?
Is Blockchain Technology The Answer?
Blockchain technology could be the answer for fitness enthusiasts who want to keep their data safe. In blockchain-based health and fitness models, users still own their data, and they can choose if they’re going to share it with their gym, fitness apps, and location tracking GPS enabled apps.
Blockchain is not used to store health data. It’s used to keep track of ownership and data access. This could be an attractive option for fitness enthusiasts who would like to take ownership of their health and fitness data.I spoke with Blockchain security expert and Co-Founder of BurstIQ, Brian Jackson. I asked him to share his thoughts on Blockchain’s impact on health data and how it cane make our smart devices safer to use for our favorite fitness and health apps.
“Blockchain provides the ability to bring control of the data back to the individual user. Letting the user decide or consent their IoT data to specific applications, as well as to incentivize users to share data to research groups or other health-related organizations,” said Jackson.
For now, it’s in the hands of the developers to create solutions to tap into this multi-billion industry and ensure the user is in control of their data and not being used without their consent. Improved data security from Blockchain-enabled fitness apps will give users more confidence that their information is safe, and with that, adoption rates will continue to grow even faster than they have already.
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About BurstIQ
BurstIQ is the leading provider of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the identity, healthcare and life sciences industries. The company’s secure data exchange network combines blockchain, multi-layered governance and best-in-class security to build multi-dimensional profiles, called LifeGraphs®, of people, places and things, and empower the connections between them. LifeGraph® Network allows organizations to manage the ownership and sharing of sensitive data, with consent, governance and process automation built in. The result is a global, secure data network that allows health systems, payers, digital health companies, pharma & life science companies and governments to collaborate, share, discover and build the impossible.
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