Stilgherrian writes: The last time I wrote about big data, in July, I called it a big, distracting bubble. But it’s worse than that. Big data is an ideology. A religion. One of its most important gospels is, of course, at Wired. In 2008, Chris Anderson talked up a thing called The Petabyte Age in The End…
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Sensors everywhere could mean privacy nowhere, expert says
Steve Tally writes: Just as we are coming to grips with having less privacy in our lives thanks to the Internet, a new use of the technology is poised to present new questions about security and privacy – and create a new threat to society. Eugene Spafford, professor of computer science at Purdue University and…
Big Data Analysis is Possible Without Infringing Key Privacy Principles, Says International Working Group
Monika Kuschewsky writes: “Data is everywhere. The amount of data on the global level is growing by 50 percent annually. 90 [percent] of the world’s data has been generated within the past two years alone,” explains the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications in their Opinion of May 6, 2014, titled, “Working Paper on Big Data and Privacy:…
13 Principles Week of Action
From EFF: In the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the 13 Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we’ll take on a different part of the principles,…