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Someday, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.
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How is Facebook Different than the Deutsche Börse AlphaFlash?
You will recall that earlier in the year the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it is OK for public companies to use social media to disclose what is (up to the time of disclosure) non-public information. You will also … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Policy, Regulation, SEC
Tagged big data, personal information, SEC, social media
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Search Engine Autocomplete Defamation is a Thing
As it is a holiday week here, I want to keep it light. Stumbling across this makes that so very easy. You can’t make this stuff up. Google was sued for defamation, based on autocomplete search term suggestions. Apparently the words … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Fun Facts, Privacy, Random Synaptic Firing
Tagged big data, culture, Google Autocomplete, search query defamation, unintended consequences
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The Small Bright Side to the Facebook Thing
I promised to discuss a different perspective on the damage caused by Facebook’s shadow profiles and data breach. This is it. I’ll keep it short because it’s Friday. The good news about the Facebook data breach is the way it … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Data Security, Privacy, Social Media
Tagged big data, data security, Facebook data breach, personal information, personally identifiable information; PII;, social media
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It’s a Facebook Thing Now
I’d like to talk about something other than data gathering issues, but we keep hearing about new problems. Here we go with the latest. The Apparent Facts Facebook creates “shadow profiles” about its users. The shadow profiles contain information that … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Data Security, Privacy, Social Media
Tagged big data, data security, personal information, personally identifiable information; PII;, social media
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Seriously, it’s Not Just the NSA
Last week we discussed how the NSA has to get its data from somewhere, and it turns out the NSA gets it from us – via Google and friends. The essential point made was that private enterprise also deserves scrutiny … Continue reading
Posted in Diatribe, NSA, Privacy
Tagged data security, NSA, personal information, privacy
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The Future of Violating Your Privacy
Let’s discuss the personal information of the future – medical information. Not just any information – information about your DNA. (Please remember we don’t say personally identifiable information here at Big Data and the Law.) Miinome, a Minneapolis start-up is, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Data Security, Diatribe, Genetic Data, Privacy
Tagged big data, data security, genetics, medical applications, personal information, personally identifiable information; PII;, privacy
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Big Data and the Law Now on Twitter
You’ll find me at Timothy Keller @bigdatalaw
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That NSA Thing – Think about the Data for a Minute, Think about It Differently
I started doing some photography as a hobby this year. One thing I learned in the process is that not seeing the forest for the trees isn’t always a problem. Sometimes the trees deserve some attention. In this case, while … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Data Security, NSA, Open Source, Privacy
Tagged big data, data security, NSA, privacy
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That NSA Thing
No doubt there has been enough written about this, and one more thing will be superfluous. A blog named Big Data and the Law can’t avoid the subject though. But before we get into the “and the Law” part of our … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Data Security, NSA, Policy, Privacy
Tagged big data, data security, Edward Snowden, NSA, policy;, privacy
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Big Data Malpractice
Garbage in, garbage out. Remember that? Some related observations from the article we discussed in our last post: The word “data” connotes fixed numbers inside hard grids of information, and as a result, it is easily mistaken for fact. But … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Diatribe
Tagged big data, data quality, health care, medical applications
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