Response to “Eight Problems with Big Data”
After reading Jay Stanley’s ACLU article on “Eight Problems with Big Data,” it is worth reflecting on what could be construed as a fear-mongering indictment of the use of big data analytics and the implication that big data analytics and its implementation of data mining algorithms are tantamount to all-out invasion of privacy. What is interesting, though, is the presumption that privacy advocates have been “grappling” with data mining since “not long after 9/11,” yet data mining was already quite a mature discipline by that point in time, as was the general use of customer data for marketing, sales, and other business purposes. Raising an alarm about “big data” and “data mining” today is akin to shutting the barn door decades after the horses have bolted. Read more
Reflections on DGIQ 2011 – Evolving Data Quality
Just got back from the Data Governance and Data Quality conference in San Diego, and here are some quick reflections:
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