Big data and privacy questions

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The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, L. Rafael Reif, warned about protecting privacy even as the potentials of digital learning are harnessed. “How do we set the boundaries, and balance the competing interests?…If you believe in the potential of digital learning you have to care about the larger question: How can we harness this flood of data to generate positive change – without destroying the very idea of privacy,” he said during a workshop on Big Data Privacy, sponsored in part by the White House. John Podesta, counselor to the president, said the goal of the big data privacy review is to determine how both the public and private sectors could maximize the flow of information needed for innovation, while minimizing privacy risks.
 
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