Aryana Libris

Authors : Payton Theresa M. - Claypoole Theodore
Title : Privacy in the age of big data Recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your family
Year : 2014

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Foreword. As a partner in the strategic advisory firm Ridge Schmidt Cyber, I help senior executives from business and government develop strategies to deal with the increasing demands of cybersecurity, privacy, and big data decisions. We often talk about the importance of maintaining security while protecting privacy and enhancing business processes. When I served as special assistant to the president and the cybersecurity coordinator during President Obama’s administration, we saw repeatedly that the choices were not easy—if they were would not still be wrestling with this issue. It’s a challenge I saw on both sides of the table from my roles with the White House, Department of Homeland Security, US military, and law enforcement to my roles in the private sector at market leaders such as Microsoft Corporation and eBay. Some experts have indicated that the volume of data in the world is rapidly growing and is perhaps doubling every eighteen months. A recent report published by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) stated that the creation of data will be forty-four times greater in 2020 than it was in 2009. IBM has said that 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in 2011–2012. This might be why the elusive tech term of “big data” is starting become more mainstream within your household or workplace. How we collect and use the growing data supply can impact our professional and personal lives. Big data—is it going to prove to be a boon or a bust to business bottom lines? Is it the answer to all of our national security needs, or will it undermine the key liberties we cherish? Just because we can collect massive amounts of data and analyze it at lightning speed, should we? Are companies designing big data with privacy and security in mind? Big data analysis can be used to spot security issues by pinpointing anomalous behaviors at lightning speed. Big data provides businesses and governments around the globe the capability to find the needle in the haystack—by analyzing and sorting through massive treasure troves of data to find the hidden patterns and correlations that human analysts alone might miss. At the present time, most organizations don’t really understand the best way to design big data applications and analytics, which translates into massive data collection with a “just in case we need it” approach. Companies may collect everything without truly understanding the data-security and privacy ramifications. As business and government collects and benefits from all of this data, capturing data becomes an end in itself. We must have more and more data to feed the insatiable appetite for more. And yet, we are not having a serious public discussion about what information is collected about each of us and how it is being used. This book starts the discussion in a provocative and fascinating manner. Nearly every industrialized country has passed laws addressing use of personal data. Some such laws exist in the United States, but the US Congress has not passed a broad law limiting the collection or use of all sorts of personal data since before the Internet was introduced to the public. The technology to gather and exploit information has rapidly outpaced our government’s willingness and ability to thoughtfully pass laws protecting both commerce and privacy, so that business does not know what it can do and citizens are left unprotected. Around the globe, too many citizens are exposed to identity theft, businesses are struggling to deal with cyberespionage and theft of intellectual property, banks are increasingly fighting regular cyberdisruptions, and the list of malware and breaches continue to mount against social-media networks and Internet platforms. ...