3    Big Data LandscapeNew Social Harms and National Security Threats

DOI: 10.4324/9781003389651-4

The big data landscape has created new social harms and exacerbated existing ones. The implications of complete, or near-complete, data coverage of our lives combined with the most advanced analytical capability and storage residing in commercial enterprise was raised by almost all participants in this study as an area of continuous change that creates new social harms and national security threats. The way data is created, owned and used, and the infrastructure it is transmitted and analysed on, is creating new social harms and exacerbating existing ones. The big data landscape ‘democratises’ intrusive digital surveillance, profiling, influence, ...

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