Cloud and Big Data: Delivering on the promise while safeguarding privacy – WS 04 2014

Session title: Cloud and Big Data: Delivering on the Promise while Safeguarding Privacy

Session subject:

• Big data, new behaviour patterns

• Promoters and opportunities of new technologies

• Data protection

Session description: The advent of cloud computing and big data, spurred by the growth and increasing pervasiveness of the Internet in our societies and economies, holds many promises. We are at the start of a ‘smart world’, where our homes, our cities, our energy, can become smarter thanks to better data monitoring and collection; with the potential to drastically improve our consumption and management of energy and the environment. The same online developments have also seen the rise of crowdfunding, and generally of more citizen and public empowerment.

But with these developments – especially the increased use of (personal) data - come challenges, notably for privacy and security. As the technology develops, it is still poorly understood and often not (yet) trusted by many, which could deter or delay its potential.

As policymakers look to the new questions raised by these developments, it is important that we have a debate including all stakeholders, to ensure that the technology delivers all its promises – from empowered citizenry to better energy utilization and economic growth – while making sure all the necessary safeguards are in place, notably when it comes to privacy and security.

People:

• Focal point: Jean-Jaques Sahel, ICANN
• Live moderator: Jean-Jacques Sahel
• Rapporteur: Olivier Crepin-Leblond
• Remote participation moderator: Farzaneh Badiei
• Digital facilitator: Tobias
• Panelists/speakers:

*Elena Bratanova and/or Dr Stenzel, Data Protection Reform, German Ministry of Interior
*Cornelia Kutterer, Director of EU Institutional Affairs, Microsoft
*Arman Atoyan, Founder, Director, X-TECH Creative Studio, Armenia 
*Karsten  Wenzlaf, ikosom  /  German Crowdfunding Network 

Format of this working group at EuroDIG: Workshop.

Protocol. Discussions: See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page

Further reading:

• Peter Leonard. Customer data analytics: privacy settings for ‘Big Data’ business

• Report on Big Data and Privacy from John Podesta, White House, from May 2014

• Big Data: The End of Privacy or a New Beginning?

• Ira Rubinstein. Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics

• Omer Tene. European Cloud Computing Strategy

• European Cloud Computing Strategy, Big & Open Data for Europe, report by the Warsaw Institute of Economic Policy

• Social platform for citizen and public participation

Live stream / remote participation: Click here to participate remotely

Live transcripts: Click here to view the live transcripts

Final report from working group: PDF (approx. 2 weeks after event)

Pictures from working group: Link

Session twitter hashtag: #eurodig_ws4