The big dangers of big data

in the news | February 02, 2015

CNN

Konstantin Kakaes:

The central claim of data proponents is that data always has some positive value. This premise is false. Data-gathering that seems innocuous enough to the managerial class often brings with it undue burden on the subjects of the data gathering.

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