Big Data and the Personal Data Protection Act

In this digital day and age, we are constantly bombarded with so much information on the internet. Our actions, personal details etc are constantly updated and broadcasted over the internet and social media. It comes as no surprise that we have come to a state where we are either paranoid with the publicity of our actions on the internet or quite willing to share information without fully comprehending the risks associated with loss of privacy and the use and misuse of information on the internet.

As my final speech leading to the Advanced Communicator Silver Award, I will be giving a short presentation this coming Thursday, 27 November 2014, on “Big Data and the Personal Data Protection Act”. The focus of the presentation will be on the challenges/affronts that big data poses to data protection in the following respects:
(a) disclosure of personal data;
(b) consent and privacy; and
(c) security

I would encourage those attending the presentation this Thursday to read the following material in advance by visiting the following links:

http://ico.org.uk/news/latest_news/2014/~/media/documents/library/data_protection/practical_application/big-data-and-data-protection.pdfhttp://idpl.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/47.extract
http://foongchengleong.com/2014/05/leveraging-big-data/
http://klbar.blogspot.com/2013/08/article-personal-data-protection-act.html
I welcome any questions which you may have and will endeavour to have them answered during the presentation provided they are emailed to me by noon on Wednesday, 26 November 2014. As this is a 12 to 15 minute presentation, with a specific focus as mentioned above, if you have any questions thereafter, please do not hesitate to email me at meerasnathan@gmail.com or post the question at this website. Thank you.

Regards,
Meera Shanmughanathan, ACB, ALB.