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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.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
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Current Privacy Regulation Might Not Protect Your Personal Information
A June 1 article in The New York Times highlights some of the issues we are concerned with here at Big Data and the Law. The article is about what Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft Research, calls the “Six … Continue reading
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Two Examples of Cultural Impediments to Data Privacy and Security
Example 1 Last week an article in the Huffington Post described how 420,000 computers were hacked in the process of creating a GIF-based map of the internet. There seems to be some debate about whether what occurred was really hacking. … Continue reading
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