Today Hedera Hashgraph announced that Hala Systems has adopted its distributed ledger technology (DLT). Hala is a wartech social enterprise that provides an early warning system ‘Sentry’ for conflicts and natural disasters, which it says is heavily used in Syria. Hedera provides Hala with a logging system for photos, video and audio.
“Hala Sentry empowers civilians to record immutable data from their smartphones, warning others of potential dangers, accurately documenting events as they happen, and providing global stakeholders with credible records upon which to base decisions,” says John Jaeger CEO of Hala Systems.
However, Jaeger notes that by using Sentry users can be “confident about its authenticity”. DLT means that once data is on the network, it’s rather hard to tamper with. But as with all blockchains and DLTs, whether or not the data was manipulated beforehand is another question.
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