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Big Data
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Technology Law Dispatch
FTC Warns Big Data Brings Big Consequences in New Report
By Sulina D. Gabale, Paul Bond
The FTC unveiled a lengthy report, Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues, warning companies about commercial uses of big data and the discriminatory impact it…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Warning Issued about Legal Risks of Using Big Data
By Peter Vogel
Most people do not appreciate what is meant by the term Big Data so the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report which highlights that “potential benefits to consumers are significant,…
Ad Law Access
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Interviews Special Counsel Richard Cohen Regarding Innovations in Technology Affecting Big Data
By Kelley Drye
Special counsel Richard Cohen was interviewed by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel in the law article “Weighing Public vs. Private Interests in the Big Data Economy: Innovations in technology continue to bring…
Insurance
FCA publishes Call for Inputs: Big Data in retail general insurance
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a ‘Call for Inputs’ in order to understand better how general insurance firms use Big Data. Although the collection and usage of data…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EDPS Issues Opinion on the Challenges of Big Data
On November 19, 2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor published an Opinion entitled Meeting the Challenges of Big Data. The Opinion outlines the challenges, opportunities and risks associated with big…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Can and will “big data” enable astute (and/or scary) recidivism risk assessment?
Main November 15, 2015Can and will "big data" enable astute (and/or scary) recidivism risk assessment?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this interesting Christian Science Monitor…
The Global Privacy Watch
The 37th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners – Some Observations
The annual conference of the world’s data protection regulators is a three day exercise, with half of the conference being “closed door” for the regulators only, and the other half…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Growing Role of Technology and Big Data in White Collar Cases
Three recent articles confirm the growing significance of technology and big data to both the general practice of law and the field of white collar crime in particular.The first article,…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Why Big Data Scares Me
When I graduated from high school, I knew three languages. I was fluent in two and had a fairly good working knowledge of the third. Today, my second and third…
Technology Law Dispatch
Study reports draft EU Data Protection Regulation leaves gaps in protection when it comes to Big Data, Internet of Things and smart devices
A study published 22 September 2015 criticises the EU’s development of its Digital Single Market (‘DSM’) strategy for being overly commercially and economically driven, with little attention to the key legal…