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Baidu wants to keep your data locked down. It might start using blockchain to do so. 

The Chinese search giant filed a patent application for a "blockchain-based data verification" system for cloud computing and cloud services. Baidu's system essentially uses blockchain in the context of data security to let users check whether their data has been tampered with.

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Source Fool.com