Legalities
Abstract
Big Data projects always incur some legal risk. It is impossible to know all the data contained in a Big Data project, and it is impossible to know every purpose to which Big Data is used. Hence, the entities that produce Big Data may unknowingly contribute to a variety of illegal activities, chiefly: copyright and other intellectual property infringements, breaches of confidentiality, and privacy invasions. In addition, issues of data quality, data availability, and data documentation may contribute to the legal or regulatory disqualification of a Big Data resource. In this chapter, four issues will be discussed in detail: (1) responsibility for the accuracy of the contained data; (2) obtaining the rights to create, ...
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