Month: May 2014

Making Best Use of Big Data

Post author By Andrew Cormack
Post date 23 May 2014
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A thought-provoking talk at the TERENA Networking Conference by Barry Smyth of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics suggested both the possibilities and the problems of big data, and some of the decisions that society needs to make soon about how we do, and do not, use it to maximise benefits and minimise harms. A […]

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Is there a “Right To Be Forgotten”? I don’t know

Post author By Andrew Cormack
Post date 22 May 2014
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A number of people have asked me what the recent European Court judgment in the Google “right to be forgotten” case means; here’s why I have been answering that I don’t know! The case concerned a fifteen-year old article in a Spanish newspaper about a named individual who had got into financial difficulties. The individual, […]

Tags Data Protection Directive, Data Protection Regulation, Intermediaries, Right to Erasure