Blockchain for Peer Review
David Rosenthal,
DSHR's Blog,
May 21, 2018
This article describes an initiative in the UK called Blockchain for Peer Review, " a protocol where information about peer review activities (submitted by publishers) are stored on a blockchain." Although this may appear to make sense, argues David Rosenthal, "implementing it with a blockchain is effectively impossible" because of GDPR. The reason is that the proposal would store personal information about reviewers in a permanent fashion, and GDPR requires that "people must be able to demand that their personal data is rectified or deleted under many circumstances." More. But you can't unspend money after having spent it, you can't unvote after having voted in an election, and you can undo your ownership of a car after it caused an accident. And, I suspect, you can't unreview an article after it has been reviewed.
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