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Spearmint: A Decentralized Solution for Recording Evidence of Cyberbullying

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New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (DiTTEt 2023)

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Abstract

The disruptive potential of technological innovations with decentralized characteristics promises impacts that will change how we interact with the Internet, the economy, and society. Such innovations already make possible the permanent decentralized recording of chain information in a safe and fraud-free way. This work presents Spearmint, a platform for recording evidence of cyberbullying in a distributed environment, in which evidence is captured and recorded to ensure long-term decentralized data storage. The solution incorporates integration with the NFT.Storage platform provides free, decentralized storage in IPFS and Filecoin in a permanent and verifiable manner across multiple providers. The solution’s architecture comprises two modules: a browser extension and a web application that collect online content proofs securely, conveniently, and free of charge.

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    Peer-to-Peer: Technology based on a distributed network, replacing the model of a central server by one formed by several members performing the same function.

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    Chromium: Although it also includes Chromium OS, in this case, Chromium is Google’s open-source browser project, used to build several modern browsers such as Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome itself [28].

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To FAPERGS for the support in granting a scientific initiation scholarship to the first author. The research of Luis Augusto Silva has been funded by the call for predoctoral contracts USAL 2021, co-financed by Banco Santander.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal Institute Sul-rio-Grandense, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    João L. Daré Pinto & Anubis G. de Moraes Rossetto

  2. Expert Systems and Applications Lab - ESALAB, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Luis Augusto Silva

  3. VALORIZA - Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal

    Valderi R. Q. Leithardt

  4. Higher Institute of Engineering of Lisbon (ISEL), Polytechnic University of Lisbon, 1959-007, Lisbon, Portugal

    Valderi R. Q. Leithardt

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Pinto, J.L.D., de Moraes Rossetto, A.G., Silva, L.A., Leithardt, V.R.Q. (2023). Spearmint: A Decentralized Solution for Recording Evidence of Cyberbullying. In: de la Iglesia, D.H., de Paz Santana, J.F., López Rivero, A.J. (eds) New Trends in Disruptive Technologies, Tech Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. DiTTEt 2023. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1452. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38344-1_11

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