Computer Science Table: Privacy in the age of big data and analytics
Computer Science 2014-04-17
Summary:
At this week's Computer Science Table (at noon on Friday, April 18, in Rosenfield 224A), we will discuss privacy in the age of big data and analytics, and specifically the issues are raised in two videos (one recent, one classic):
“Demo: Big data and analytics at work in banking” IBM Big Data and Analytics, YouTube, September 7, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYKgj-QK4I
“Scary pizza” American Civil Liberties Union, YouTube, January 15, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33CIVjvYyEk
For more extensive discussions of some of these issues, you might want to read:
“Big data and the future of privacy” John Podesta, whitehouse.gov, March 3, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/01/23/big-data-and-future-privacy
“Comments of the Electronic Privacy Information Center to the Office of Science and Technology Policy: Request for information: Big data and the future of privacy” Electronic Privacy Information Center, April 4, 2014 https://epic.org/privacy/big-data/EPIC-OSTP-Big-Data.pdf
Computer Science Table is an open weekly meeting of Grinnell College community members (students, faculty, staff, etc.) interested in discussing topics related to computing and computer science.