Abstract
This article provides a legal analysis model for legislators to employ in order to identify non-compliance with the technology neutrality principle in cases of use of blockchain technology. The principle of technology neutrality is aimed at supporting innovation and competition. The article uses the treatment of an application called CUBER in Estonia as early as in 2014 as an example for such analysis. The CUBER mobile application used blockchain technology to execute payment transactions for goods and services. The article first portrays the challenges that the technology neutrality principle poses on existing regulation. It then explores whether technology discrimination took place against CUBER and how this could have been avoided through compliance with the technology neutrality principle. Through this analysis, the article maps the challenges that all start-ups encounter when initiating the use of a new technology aiming to innovate an existing process.
Recommended Citation
Veerpalu, Anne and Rodrigues e Silva, Eduardo da Cruz
(2019)
"Hitting the White Ball: The Technology Neutrality
Principle and Blockchain-Based Applications,"
Indian Journal of Law and Technology: Vol. 15:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
DOI: 10.55496/PJEB9967
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/ijlt/vol15/iss2/2
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55496/PJEB9967
