Big Data – Small Privacy?

16.05.2013 14:00-15:00 Moderator:

Big Data – Small Privacy?

Big Data is useful. With its great use for all kinds of businesses, Big Data has a major impact on privacy. The reason for companies to collect Big Data is to get new information about the market, the movements of goods … – and finally about people, costumers and prospective costumers. Big Data concerns privacy in a new way because its scale of data processing is yet unknown and as enormous as the knowledge to gain from it. However, the bigger data is, the more revealing meta information can be created. Is big data to data subjects what is the full-body scanner to flight passengers? Will legislators have to grant salvation for the population or will big data bring a new kind of salvation to all of us?

Big Data – the Need, the Opportunities

Big Data is not only about privacy concerns. There are a lot of opportunities in. There are many areas where Big Data will be the only way to solve emerging business challenges. Thus there is a need for Big Data technologies and there are many opportunities where Big Data can create business value. Clearly there is the balance towards privacy. But many areas of Big Data, like Big Data in Security, Big Data in the context of Smart Infrastructures, or Big Data in the context of the IoPTS (Internet of People, Things, Services) are not or not primarily about identifying customers but about other business challenges. This panel will discuss the potential of Big Data beyond the privacy concerns.