First legally-mandated blockchain: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s spam call complaint database | Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
TRAI releases on Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulation, 2018 | Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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TRAI releases on Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulation, 2018 | Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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The regulation turns out to mandate storing your customer complaints in a “distributed ledger” that runs “smart contracts.”
A distributed ledger — whatever that specifically means — will store customers’ phone call preferences. This will ensure the data is centrally accessible — but only to registered telemarketers. (Who, I’m sure, will never abuse it or anything.) Users can revoke consent at any time.
As far as I can tell, this is the first case of a government requiring the use of a blockchain for a particular task.