Video: What Is Big Data?

We explain in simple terms what was all the excitement around 'big data'.

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14th February 2018

Language English

Key points

Though it's an older concept now, in 2010-2018 it was a dominant ambition by companies and governments
Now these ambitions have been enveloped into AI systems, with many of the same properties, and proponents.

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Explainers

Our fight

Challenging Corporate Data Exploitation

Contesting Government Data and System Exploitation

What PI is calling for

People and communities must be able to protect their data and rights, resist and object to exploitation by governments and industry.

PI educates and mobilises people

We should know all our data and profiles

Individuals need to have full insight into their profiles. This includes full access to derived, inferred and predicted data about them.

Limit data analysis by design

As nearly every human interaction now generates some form of data, systems should be designed to limit the invasiveness of data analysis by all parties in the transaction and networking.

Control over intelligence

Individuals should have control over the data generated about their activities, conduct, devices, and interactions, and be able to determine who is gaining this intelligence and how it is to be used.