In an op-ed for Forbes, Kalev Leetaru writes computer science curriculums should place more of an emphasis toward privacy over the collection of large amounts of data. While some courses touch upon ethics in artificial intelligence and privacy laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Leetaru believes these programs should follow the example of libraries and aim for data minimization. “The less data companies keep about their users, the less information there is that can be misused and the lower their storage and analytic costs,” Leetaru writes. “If a company can make do with a terabyte of aggregated data rather than a petabyte of individual-level high resolution data, it can achieve considerable cost savings and move many of its batch analyses to real-time.”
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