Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
On January 17, in a speech at the Justice Department about reforming the United States’ signals intelligence practices, President Obama tasked his Counselor John Podesta with leading a comprehensive review of the impact big data technologies are having, and will have, on a range of economic, social, and government activities. Podesta was joined in this effort by Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, the President’s Science Advisor John Holdren, the President’s Economic Advisor Jeffrey Zients, and other senior government officials. The President’s Council of Advisors for Science & Technology conducted a parallel report to take measure of the underlying technologies. Their findings underpin many of the technological assertions in this report. This review was conceived as fundamentally a scoping exercise.