BigDataFr recommends: Big Data Privacy Scenario – Big Data Privacy Working Group Chairs

Executive Summary (Excerpt)

Karen Sollins (MIT)

The MIT BigData Privacy Working Group launched a series of workshops beginning in 2013 to explore the challenges and possible technological solutions to elements of those
challenges.
As a success or to those workshops, the Working Group began to focus on a collection of real world scenarios and use cases, to illuminate the challenges more concretely.

The deeper question explored by this exercise is what is distinctive about privacy in the context of Big Data. […]

This focus on people as the subjects of attention in the BigData context is central to the definition of privacy, which it self focuses on control data, information and inferences about people and how that can or should be used, exposed, or otherwise made available. […]

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By Elizabeth Bruce (MIT), Karen Sollins (MIT), Mona Vernon (Thomson Reuters), Danny Weitzner (MIT)
Source: dspace.mit.edu