Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data Report Addresses How Big Data & Privacy Can Successfully Coexist

WASHINGTON & TORONTO, 8 June 2012 – Organizations should act now to address the privacy risks associated with Big Data, and the analytics technologies used to make sense of these vast data sets, before such risks become realities. This, and other key recommendations, are detailed in a new joint report titled Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data authored by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and IBM Fellow, Jeff Jonas.

The report outlines the transformative nature of Privacy by Design when applied to Big Data, and sensemaking systems, and the importance of Privacy by Design, which shows why and how privacy protections can be embedded directly into technology as a default standard.