Is the Big Brother threat of Big Data real?
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Channel: The Aspen Institute · 2012 · Science & Technology
A clip from the Aspen Ideas Festival 2012 session, CEO Series: The Next Seismic Shift: Understanding Big Data. Palantir Technologies was founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists. Today its analytics products are widely used by the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities as well as some of the world's leading hedge funds and financial institutions. Join Palantir's CEO to explore the concept of Big Data and why it matters to you; the privacy, civil liberties, and security concerns raised by the next wave of Internet technologies; and what's behind the uniquely creative culture of Silicon Valley. Speakers: Elliot Gerson, Michael Lopp
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