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In the podcast Hashing It Out, Nicholas Zaldastani, co-founder of Community Enhanced Storage Solutions (CESS), highlighted the importance of decentralizing data storage to ensure privacy, security and ownership control. CESS employs a data distribution method that minimizes the risk of data misuse by scattering it across multiple locations. Further, Zaldastani emphasized that blockchain technologies could revolutionize the way we keep data secure by splitting it into encrypted sections and distributing them across various locations.
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In the world where everything’s digital, questions over who owns data and how to keep it private and safe are becoming more and more important. On a recent episode of the podcast, Hashing It Out, host Elisha Owusu Akyaw chatted with Nicholas Zaldastani, top dog and co-founder of CESS, about this stuff. They talked about who gets to own and control data, why decentralizing storage matters, and how blockchain could completely change how we keep data safe.
Zaldastani went back to his time at Oracle in the late ’80s where he first noticed how valuable data is. Today, data’s basically indispensable to the economy, fueling everything from targeted ads to AI advancements. As we continue to rely on data, it’s extra important to ensure that our data is private and secure.
CESS, also known as Community Enhanced Storage Solutions, wants to keep data safe by not keeping it all in one place. This platform, started in 2019, aims to let people who own data have more control over it by finding issues with the way we store data now. Currently, most of our data is stored in one place, which is super convenient but often means we surrender ownership.
Zaldastani highlighted the idea of ‘data sovereignty’ or being the boss of your own data. Today’s storage systems often leave data open to access or misuse. But, CESS offers a solution by spreading data over many locations so it’s harder to misuse.
Blockchain companies like CESS are finding new ways to protect data by breaking it up into encrypted sections and multiplying them across many locations. As Zaldastani said, even if one section was accessed, you wouldn’t have the whole picture. It would also be really tough because you’d have to find and unscramble all the pieces. He says this approach is much more secure and shields data from hackers and other potential risks.
The Hashing It Out podcast also looks at how decentralizing data storage could transform areas like digital art and AI. You can catch the latest episode of Hashing It Out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and TuneIn. Plus, you can find more about this on the Cointelegraph Podcasts page.