Episode 1 - Big Data

2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced by humans every day… what do countries and companies do with it?

Our wildest sci-fi ideas are now being realised through predictive policing, 24/7 surveillance and location tracking; all of which we are providing permission for... even if we don't know it.

In this episode we talk to Professor Andrej Zwitter about the good, the bad and the ugly of big data.

Prof. Andrej Zwitter is chair of Governance and Innovation and the dean of the Faculty Campus Fryslân of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Prof. Zwitter's expertise in technology, ethics and law encapsulate an array of academic and professional perspectives relating to ethical implications of Big Data, Blockchain technology and artificial intelligence.

Reading List:

Andrej J. Zwitter, Oskar J. Gstrein and Evan Yap, ‘Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual’ (May 2020) Vol. 3 Frontiers in Blockchain.

Anwaar Ali, Junaid Qadir, Raihan ur Rasool,, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Andrej Zwitter and Jon Crowcroft, ‘Big data for development: applications and techniques’ (2016) Vol. 1 Big Data Analytics.

Andrej J. Zwitter, ‘Big Data Ethics’ (Nov 2014) Vol. 1(2) Big Data & Society.