Former JPMorgan Blockchain Head Says Focus Should Be On Privacy

Amber Baldet, the former head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s blockchain program, isn’t revealing her next gig, but at a conference Monday it became clear that her focus is on privacy.

“We should be focusing on creating a privacy preserving system that gives us the option to create something that might be disruptive,” Baldet said at the MIT Technology Review’s Business of Blockchain conference. Blockchains as they exist today don’t allow users to own data, selectively disclose it and get paid for it, she said.