A recent push in the information technology industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regulation from some governments, ...

How anonymous is “anonymous” in today’s digital world? Not the hacktivist collective – this is about how anonymous average people are when the data they generate is vacuumed up by everybody from ...

Singapore: The ability of big-data collection and analysis can serve as checks and balances on government bodies, ensuring agencies are both administratively efficient and transparent as public ...

Thrust into controversy by Edward Snowden’s first revelations last year, President Obama belatedly welcomed a “conversation” about privacy. As cynical as you may feel about US spying, that ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its ...

“Big Data” comprises of the huge amounts of data collected about every person on earth and their surroundings. If the total data generated in 2012 is 2500 exabytes, then the total data generated in ...

Big data presents fascinating possibilities for technology and business, but according to IBM cloud architect and evangelist Raghavan Srinivas, the traditional approach to big data collection and ...

Kate Crawford has an unusual talent. She demystifies big data so effectively she finds herself flown around the world to do just that. But there's a catch. Just when you think you understand how big ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...

A statistic published earlier this year caught my eye. According to Gartner, through 2018, 70 percent of Hadoop deployments will fail to meet cost savings and revenue generation objectives due to ...