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by lhdj 2194 days ago
Data privacy is an engineering problem - and currently there aren't any really good open-source tools to 'solve' data privacy - it's really up to the application developer to make sure they don't mess up. If the organisations is sufficiently large there is a CISO to ensure the correct processes are in place so that this sort of thing does not happen.

I think in an ideal world data privacy should be addressed by open-source software enabling software developers to easily express data privacy as code and version control it and review it much like we do with our infrastructure.

There is an product [0] which is currently in Alpha aimed at doing this. (Full disclosure I am one of the core devs) We don't support S3 buckets yet - but it's on the roadmap.

[0] https://github.com/openquery-io/parallax

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> aren't any really good open-source tools to 'solve' data privacy

The most exciting project I've found so far, who are working on this, is a project called Ceptr, who have open sourced a pattern called Holographic chain. It uses validation rules and open app logic to create completely distributed apps. Each user holds onto their own data. It is often called Protocol Cooperativism (close to Platform Cooperativism) You can find more about it in this medium post by one of the core contributors:

"It's a framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is like a decentralized Ruby on Rails, a toolkit that produces stand-alone programs but for serverless high-profile applications." [1]

[1] https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...