Privacy should be protected in a large data age

Have you ever believed in the legendary ability of the octopus to predict the World Cup football tournament? It is said to be behind the results of a powerful team of experts based on a series of data analyses.

Large data companies have also gained the favor of the investment community. June 12, Israel's big data start-up sisence 30 million dollars in financing, the bright spot is to reduce the threshold for companies to participate in large data, the process of data processing moved to the cloud, to help customers make reasonable forecasts, without the use of large memory equipment.

In the scientific and technological sectors, the sports sector and the investment community, news about big data is always on the go. Even the use of large data and cloud computing is seen as a symbol of the fourth technological revolution following the steam engine, power and computers. Of course, some people say that 3D printing technology will lead a technological revolution. Who will lead the revolution in science and technology can be given time to answer, but we are more concerned about the large data and cloud technology under the protection of individual privacy rights.

The White House published the Big Data white paper in May to encourage the use of data to promote social progress, such as in the areas of intelligent manufacturing, health care and education. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to gradually open up large medical and health data to society. But the application of the data was also used by the National Security Agency (NSA) to identify individuals so that American mathematicians began boycotting the NSA to protect privacy.

There is no doubt that large data technology has a powerful power not only to find distant planets in space, but also to analyze climate and energy data, bring meaningful scientific discoveries, and even collect data samples from millions of neonatal intensive care units to determine which newborns may be infected with potentially fatal infectious diseases. It can also manage the deployment of power grids to increase agricultural productivity in developing countries.

But the integration of data can lead to the disclosure of personal privacy. Now a lot of mobile phone software, can make personal identity fragmented information directly recover. Global Positioning System tracking, CCTV surveillance everywhere. Personal files and records used to store paper as a carrier at home, later in the form of electronic documents stored in the computer's hard disk, and finally in a variety of file formats at the same time stored in the local and multiple terminals to access the cloud.

With the development of large data technology, the laws and policies of relevant privacy must be adjusted to protect the core values of human beings. In the past 30 years, text messaging, e-mail and other communication platforms have become a means of private communication, in the digital world, information can be acquired, copied, shared, accurately translated and saved indefinitely.

Historians Melvin Klanzburg's first Law of science and Technology says: "Technology is neither good nor bad, nor neutral." "Technology can serve the public, and it can hurt individuals." "More and more private data will be generated and saved under the control of others," says the 2014 white paper. Ensuring data security is a priority. ”

But there is no doubt that the innovation and application of large data technology will create great value in the 21st century, which can be seen from countries ' attention to large data industry.

From a global perspective, the United States "big data" strategy, the United Kingdom "Data Rights" campaign, Japan's "ICT" comprehensive strategy, Korea's large data center strategy, etc. opened the global data era, has promoted large-scale data industrialization and market-oriented process. At home, the CPPCC uses big data to boost government governance; Baidu is working with China's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to use large data to predict flu outbreaks, and even the logic behind the micro-trust game is large data.

Why are big data listed as national development strategies by developed countries? What is its source? The United States 2014 Big Data White paper explains: The number of data is growing rapidly, the format is more diverse and the source is more extensive. Some of the data are "inherently digitized", specifically created for use in computers and data-processing systems, in e-mail, web browsing or GPS positioning. Some of the data are "natural simulations" that diverge from the physical world, but are constantly transformed into digital formats. such as voice or visual information recorded by a cell phone, camera, or camera device.

Large data is the intersection of American National Development Strategy, national Security Strategy, network security Strategy and national ICT industry development Strategy. Competition in the field of large data technology is related to national security and the future. The UK has strengthened data collection and analysis through a large digital strategy, driving the transformation of large data technologies from laboratories to commercial applications. The Japanese government proposed "the creation of the most sophisticated it national manifesto", on the 2013 to 2020 to develop open public data and large data as the core of Japan's new IT country strategy, to be built with "the world's highest level of extensive use of information industry technology Society."

France has listed large data as a highly supported strategic high-tech industry. Canada supports national security and economic development in the information Age through broadband construction and support for large data construction. Bitkom, the German IT industry association, said the big data business was expected to grow by 59% in 2014, with a turnover of 6.1 billion euros, expected to reach € 13.6 billion by 2016.

According to the latest market report released by Wikibon, the global large data market has an annual composite growth rate of 31% and 2016 annual revenue of $43.7 billion, which is about seven times times faster than the overall growth of the information and communication technology (ICT) market. Nine "China's big Data industry development trend Analysis Report", which mentions that in the next 5 years, China will form large data camp with large social data, large commodity data, big social data, big data of enterprise and finance.

While large data technologies create value for business and technology, don't overlook the balance between social ethics and ethics.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)