Centralized social network platforms and the issue of privacy

The emergence of social media platforms such as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit commensurate with the rise of the Internet. The high influx of personal information became easily accessible as more users sign up to those platforms. Consequently, the issue of privacy and personal data integrity has become a front page and contentious issue.
As more users flock to these social media platforms, massive heaps of data are being deposited on them, tempting the platforms owners to sell those data to third party advertisers. Occasionally, social media networks got hacked and mullions of users data are siphoned.
Moreover, the centralized social media platforms, being a significant repository of users’ personal information, provides a huge opportunity for scammers, identity thiefs and other elements to carry out unlawful activities.

However, on the other hand, blockchain technology provides a solution to the issue of privacy associated with today’s social media platform as the world becoming more connected and internet-savvy. It involves the decentralized storage of users’ personal information on the numerous network of computers called nodes. A hacker attempting to compromise the platform must have to gained access to all these nodes, a less than 1% achievable feat.
TOQQN , a blockchain startup seeks to leverage the blockchain’s decentralization and immutability to transform the social media industry and relegate the persistence privacy challenge inherent with it to the background

Learn more about TOQQN on:

Website:
https://www.toqqn.com
Whitepaper:
https://www.ooobtc.com/assets/whitepaper/obx.pdf

Author:
Arinze280
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