A report that was officially commissioned by the President seeks to examine the opportunities and challenges posed by current and future big data technologies. This new report details how different groups like the government, businesses, and private citizens use big data technology and how they will eventually be affected by their widespread use.
This article mentions that big data has the potential to change our lives for the better, but privacy issues remain a significant danger. To address these concerns, the report concludes with six recommendations: The creation of a consumer privacy bill for data collection, new national standards on preventing and reporting data breaches, extend privacy protections to non-U.S. citizens, ensure data collected in schools is only used to increase educational outcomes, update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to reflect the new technologies of cloud computing and mobile data, and to prevent big data for being used for discriminatory purposes.
