[LINK] Big Data - bad or otherwise

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:55 PM 15/01/2014, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>IMHO, apart from the privacy issues, this is one of the greatest dangers
>of analysing Big Data - people will see things in the data that just
>aren't there.

Sort of like the NSA and TSA in the USA making assumptions about 
people through their phone records and emails and putting them on 
no-fly lists or worse?

Or maybe if your organisation TLA ends in SA, you're bound to go over the top?

[waves at NSA because I used their TLA in this]

Jan




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