Earlier this week in Washington, D.C., the Future of Privacy Forum and Stanford Law Schools The Center for Internet and Society presented a one day conference "Big Data Privacy: Making Ends Meet." That conference showcased numerous papers by luminaries in the privacy community. There were several common themes among the papers. One of these was the need to place contractual … [Read more...] about The Future of Big Data Privacy: Making Ends Meet
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How To Protect Your Privacy In The Big Data Era?
Many of us have read the book 1984, where George Orwell describes a society with omnipresent government surveillance and without privacy. The PRISM scandal revealed that the United States, and most probably many other countries, is already trying to get a grasp on the vast amounts of data being created today in order to stop terrorism and detect criminal activities. Most … [Read more...] about How To Protect Your Privacy In The Big Data Era?
New And Profitable Insights With Tracking Customer Movements
RetailNext and Prism Skylabs offer tools for retailers to learn from their customer movements. RetailNext is prominently present in the world's Top 10 of most innovative companies in Big Data and offers in-store analytics based on analysing sensors and images of security cameras. Prism Skylabs has a more basic offering with its product. Can showrooming be stopped?Have you ever … [Read more...] about New And Profitable Insights With Tracking Customer Movements
Big Data and Big Brother, What’s the Big Deal?
Big Data and Big Brother: Can Security and Privacy Go Hand In Hand, or Does it Even Matter? So it seems that all of those conspiracy theorists were right! The US government IS spying on everyone. Can you believe it? They're taking all of your personal info and using it for their own purposes. Unheard of, right? The NSA currently has access to personal information, phone … [Read more...] about Big Data and Big Brother, What’s the Big Deal?
Why Big Data Privacy Will Be Self-Regulating
Technological progress has always led to heated debates about the threats a new technology would pose for society and humanity. When in the 15<sup>th</sup> century printing press was invented, monks viewed easily available books that were unapproved by the church as a threat to their control over learning. The respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, feared that … [Read more...] about Why Big Data Privacy Will Be Self-Regulating