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White House Releases Big Data Report
Practical Law Legal Update 2-567-1045 (Approx. 2 pages)
White House Releases Big Data Report
by Practical Law Intellectual Property & Technology
| Published on 05 May 2014 • USA (National/Federal) |
The White House has released a big data report, Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values, on how big data affects government, society and commerce.
On May 1, 2014, the White House released a report on big data and privacy titled Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values. The report presents the findings of a 90-day study requested by President Obama to examine the effect big data technologies are having and will have on economic, social and government activities. The study focused on data of such volume or diversity or that moves with such speed that traditional ways of collecting and analyzing it are not sufficient. The report recognizes the value and potential of big data technologies, and seeks to balance its benefits with social and ethical issues the technologies raise.
The report makes the following recommendations for prompt administration attention and policy development:
- Advance the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
- Pass national data breach legislation.
- Expand privacy protections to non-US persons.
- Ensure data collected on students in schools is used for educational purposes.
- Expand technical expertise to enable identification of discriminatory practices and outcomes facilitated by bid data analytics, and develop a plan for investigating and addressing discrimination.
- Amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to ensure online digital content is afforded the same standard of protection as in the physical world. The report specifically recommends eliminating distinctions for e-mail left unread or over a certain age.