



It is the 21st century. The world has developed massively, not yet reached the peak of development but there is no discrediting how far it has progressed. One of the best news that came with this development is the internet. The internet, though faced some resistance in its infancy stage has literally made the human lives a lot more easier.





With the emergence and growth of the internet, so many arduous and strength zapping tasks has been made as easy as just a click away. You no longer have to travel around the world to make friends or spend ridiculous amount of money just to talk to a relative abroad, this has been made extremely easy by Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and many other social media platforms. If you missed an event or an important football match, its as easy as logging in YouTube to relive every moment. These days, it is even possible to shop while in your bedroom and have whatever you ordered delivered to your doorstep - how easy can it get?. These, among many others are ways in which the internet has made our lives very easy.





But the problem however, is that this easy life did not come completely free. In-fact, the price paid for this kind of easy life is permission to invade our privacy. In the guise of making our experience even easier and enjoyable we were "tricked" into giving up information so sensitive that it can easily destroy our lives if abused. Another problem is that we have absolutely no idea what these data are used for or how secure they are wherever they are saved.









Recently, hacking and fraudulent activities on the internet has rapidly increased. This is majorly due to exposure of individual's sensitive data logged in websites. We have had numerous cases of website being hacked, even the most popular and "secured" of them. Will this ever stop? Not completely, but what if you can determine how your own data is being used? What if you can set "rules" on your data and make sure anybody using it will actually "obey" your rules?





COVALENT.AI









Covalent is a smart policy platform which offers a new protocol in the decentralized web 3.0 protocol suite. It is a new internet protocol of smarter data that remembers, knows when to keep a secret, learns from its users, and more.





Just as Ethereum came up with the idea of "Smart Contract" to enforce contracts that was before now only enforceable by law, COVA came up with the idea of "Smart Policies" that enforces data usage policy that was before now only enforceable by law. With this, Users have absolute control over their data and can actually determine how they are being used.









Scenerios where Smart Policies can be enforced includes:





That a shopper’s mobile GPS data may not be used with his/her other data to construct an intrusive customer profiling. That a user's credit card number may only be used once for a one-time charge. It will be erased from the server after the payment is completed. That a user's password is salted and hashed before being persisted to a database. That a patient’s CT Scan may be processed by an aggregate function and not rendered individually. That differential privacy is applied before a user's data can be used.





To know more about Covalent, visit the following useful links:

Website: http://www.covalent.ai/

Telegram: https://t.me/covalentofficial

Twitter: https://twitter.com/covatoken

Medium: https://medium.com/@covatoken

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Covalent_Official/

GitHub: https://github.com/covalent-hq/wiki/wiki