Put blockchain to work in protecting people online

The technology itself is actually brilliant. Heavily encrypted, portable and permanent, blockchain seems to me to be an obvious part of the solution to the digital morass.

Anna Gainey, secretary of state for children and youth, left; Culture Minister Marc Miller; and Rachel Bendayan, parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, hold a press conference in the National Press Theatre on June 10, 2026, on the government’s new Safe Social Media Act. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JAMIE CARROLL

June 15, 2026

OTTAWA—They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. This column may become a proof point of that maxim, but maybe not.

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