Educational Technology

May 12, 2014

White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

By Kenneth Corbin, CIO

The White House yesterday issued a series of policy recommendations to better protect individual privacy in the era of big data, calling on Congress to write into law a consumer bill of rights for the digital age and update an electronic privacy statute that’s more than a quarter century old, among other measures. In outlining the new proposals, John Podesta, the counselor to the president who led a three-month study of privacy and big data, took pains to highlight the myriad ways in which data collected from sensors, smartphones and other networked devices and objects can yield valuable social and economic benefits. Big data functions like predictive analytics and continuous monitoring can help stem the spread of infectious diseases or provide advance warning about potential mechanical failures in jet engines, for instance.

http://www.cio.com/article/752302/White_House_Calls_for_Big_Data_and_Cloud_Privacy_Overhaul

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