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Big Data
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Land Use Prof Blog
CFP: Fordham Urban Law Journal – Smart Law for Smart Cities: Regulation and the Transformation of Urban Technology
Call For PapersFordham Urban Law Journal 2014 Symposium Book - Smart Law for Smart Cities:Regulation and the Transformation of Urban TechnologyFebruary 27th - 28th, 2014, Fordham Law School, New YorkThe…
EvidenceProf Blog
Big Data in Oakland and Beyond
By Colin Miller
This article in the NY Times chronicles Oakland'sefforts to use technology to improve law enforcement intelligence gathering. The article, like virtually all mediacoverage of this topic, focuses on the privacy…
Dewey B Strategic
Big Data Means Big Noise Without The Right Questions… The Rise of the Chief Query Officer
By Jean O'Grady
A few weeks ago, Fortune published an article on the “Big Data Employment Boom.” According to the story, big data will require 4.4 million people for hard core IT jobs…
The Legal Whiteboard
“Big Data is the Big Opportunity” for Legal
So says a just published article in the Global Legal Post by Sandeep Sacheti, an executive with Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services. The article is called "The legal industry's…
Technology Law Dispatch
“Reclaim Your Name”: A Campaign Against Big Data?
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Frederick Lah. Earlier this summer, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill introduced her “Reclaim Your Name” initiative. Aimed toward the big data industry, the initiative urges data…
Inside Privacy
Ramirez Says That FTC Will Use Tools To Protect Consumers From “Big Data” Privacy Concerns
Earlier this week, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez gave the keynote address at a technology conference, in which she focused on the privacy challenges of so-called “big data.”…
Health Law Prof Blog
Is Big Data Overhyped?
For some in Silicon Valley, the rise of new data and communication networks creates unprecedented opportunities to solve problems like obesity, traffic, and flu pandemics. For example, an app like…
Health Law Prof Blog
Is Big Data Overhyped?
Evgeny Morozov's recent book To Save Everything, Click Here challenged "solutionism:" an orientation to social issues that prioritizes what new technology can solve, and focuses on small, algorithmically decomposable bits…
Technology Law Dispatch
Pushing the Limits with Analytics
By Paul Bond
With more and more companies engaging in the field of analytics, companies continue to come up with new and innovative ways to harvest their fields of Big Data. For instance,…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Regulators, Big Data and a Sense of Limits – A Conversation with Richard Thomas
Last month, former UK Information Commissioner and Centre Global Strategy Advisor Richard Thomas discussed some of the challenges Big Data faces in light of the EU Data Protection Directive's purpose…