Volume: 9 Issue: 3
(March 2012)
Keywords:
interview
data
protection
challenge
future
big
data
while
data
protection
privacy
laws
still
busy
catching
technologies
yesterday
big
data
growing
While data protection and privacy laws are still busy catching up with technologies of yesterday, Big Data is growing at lightning speed on a daily basis. How can companies deal with the data protection challenges brought about by Big Data in order to truly benefit from the opportunities it offers? First, one must truly grasp what is Big Data. Frances Chen interviews Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, to obtain his perspective on the definition.