Daily Archives: January 22, 2012


Lori MacVittie writes at ZDnet: The term big data has come to mean big headaches for IT organisations and big problems for consumers. Privacy is a growing concern as more and more data is not only collected but voluntarily shared by consumers in exchange for free access to applications and functionality. Those wondering how much sites such as Facebook might know about them have to jump through hoops to find out and are likely to be surprised by how many personal details websites actually store. The TV documentary Erasing David, screened on More 4 in 2010, detailed an attempt by film maker David Bond to do just that — find out how private his identity really is. After deliberately disappearing for a month, he hired detectives to track him down. Before his disappearing act, Bond spent weeks trying to find out just how much information various websites held on him. […]

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?