Speaking to a group of students earlier this week, White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Nicole Wong discussed the challenges of addressing privacy when utilizing Big Data and highlighted President Barack Obama’s recently announced Big Data study to be headed by John Podesta. By making these recent remarks and initiating this new study, “President Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns,” write Future of Privacy Forum Co-Founders Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US, and Christopher Wolf and IAPP VP of Research Omer Tene. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, these three privacy experts lay out the potential privacy concerns while addressing “the profound impact of new technologies on Big Data business opportunities,” adding, “Big Data was all the rage in privacy circles in 2013, and now it is achieving appropriate, broad policy attention.”
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