BigDataFr recommends: Big data, bigger brother: The rise of James Bond, data scientist
[…] Previously confidential documents have shed light on just how much data the UK’s intelligence services have been sifting through for over a decade.
The types of data gathered by the intelligence services are wide ranging – Privacy International which revealed the documents said the agencies had the potential to requisition medical records and confidential information shared with a doctor, travel records, financial records, population data, commercial data, and feeds from internet and phone companies including billing data or subscriber details, content of communications and records from government departments. […]