like many of you I enjoy my privacy on the internet so the constant advances
over the last few years and the ability to collect massive amounts of personal
data about me have not really sat that well but is the industry's favorite big
buzzword right now Big Data all bad or
are we painting an otherwise potentially very useful tool for the advancement of
society in a bad light because of one aspect of it first let's discuss what
Big Data actually is there are many wildly different definitions of big data
for example while we individuals might Define it as an intrusive threat to our
society and the overall anonymity of the internet corporations might see it as a
revolution in data processing and Computing but there are at least a few
things that everyone can agree on Wikipedia defines Big Data as any
collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to
process using onhand database management tools or traditional data processing
applications I mean that doesn't sound so threatening right so essentially big
data is just a collection of data so large that each individual becomes an
insignificant number where whoever is in possession of the data often actually
can't make meaningful conclusions about any one person from it and many times
actually the term big data is misused it's turned into a marketing buzzword
with software and it companies stating that their systems are ready for the
challenges that big data provides which is a great way to say absolutely nothing
about the product while still managing to seem important or relevant in the
current market on top of that as much as many of you guys might not like to hear
this privacy Advocates tend to misuse the term as well they act as though Big
Data only describes user data compiled by sites and services when Big Data
actually encompasses many more types of data like scientific and business data
sets for example meteorological data from weather stations and Market data
from Financial exchanges all all around the world now before you burn me at the
stake for being a secret NSA operative for defending the idea of big data I
mean how else you think I could afford my awesome Lambo right certainly not
from that YouTube money let's chat a little bit about when Big Data is an
issue websites that collect and store data about their users for marketing
purposes can keep a massive amount of
your personal information on hand for an indefinite period of time and most of
the time the data is not not as well secured as they'd like for you to
believe or personally I'd like to believe it was in addition to that even
deleting this information from public view often has no impact on their
ability to store it on their servers so yes it's possible that that one
embarrassing picture of you from 2008 will live on in the depths of Facebook
servers Forever This coupled with the massive amount of information sharing
voluntary or otherwise and data interception that agencies like the NSA
Carry Out means that your Regional government or I mean really any other
types of Nefarious characters could potentially have every move you've made
online on file now for me personally even though I don't do anything illegal
or even questionably legal on the internet if someone were to go through
every bit of information from the years that I've been using it and cherry-pick
certain things to paint me in a negative light I'm sure I could end up looking
like a pretty bad dude so let's make a
quick connection here to solidify the idea that we've discussed uh torrenting
is something that we all know can have an extremely positive impact on the
world it's one of the greatest forms of information sharing but whenever we hear
anything about torrenting the topic revolves around piracy and its other
unsightly aspects discussion about big data is quite similar it's not in itself
a bad thing it's a driving force for a lot of great Innovations in science
technology and medicine and yet for the most part we only hear about the
negatives the main one being the lack of control that we have over our online
data and the amount of control that large corporate entities do have over it
so don't blame big data for creating the need to protect your privacy online
blame the companies who collect store and most importantly use it
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