Big Data: Legal Challenges (Full Report)
The cost of data storage has plummeted and our computing power
to use and analyse data has increased exponentially.
"Big Data" is the term for a collection of data sets
so large and complex that they cannot readily be processed with
traditional data processing applications in a reasonable amount of
time. Attempts to meaningfully define "Big Data" focus on
size of the data sets (volume), the real time way in which much of
the information is captured by a system (velocity) and the
increasing variety of disparate data sets that can be accessed
(variety).
Data sets grow in size, in part, because they are increasingly
being gathered by ubiquitous information- sensing mobile devices,
aerial sensory technologies (remote sensing), software logs,
cameras, microphones, radio-frequency identification readers, and
wireless sensor networks.
