Is Big Data the Big Brother? While there are many benefits to the growth of big data analytics, traditional methods of privacy protection often fail. Many notions of privacy rely on informed consent for the disclosure and use of an individual's private data. However, big data means that data is a resource that can be used and reused, often in ways that were inconceivable at the time the data was collected. According to writer Jeffrey Van Camp, "None of these cloud storage companies guarantee the protection of any files you upload, and there are no promises that these services won't freely share your files and information with the government or other companies."
Hence the question arises, is big data is the new big brother? Will it have control over individual’s online data? Will it always invade our privacy? Keeping all these…
