White House Calls for Big Data Reforms to Protect Privacy

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White House Calls for Big Data Reforms to Protect Privacy
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The White House released a report on Thursday that analyzes big data (http://mashable.com/category/big-data/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), laying down a ****** of policy recommendations to protect the privacy of Americans while utilizing large amounts of data made available by tech**logy.

The main recommendations of the report (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/big_data_privacy_report_may_1_2014.pdf), the result of a 90-day review led by White House counselor John Podesta, are to push for cybersecurity legislation, update a much-maligned email privacy law and extend privacy protections traditionally granted to Americans to the rest of the world

See also: How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data (http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The report underlines how big data presents new challenges in terms of protecting our privacy Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/white-house-big-data-report/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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