{"title":"Viktor Mayer-Schönberger","description":"VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER is a professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University. 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Whether it is used by the NSA to fight terrorism or by online retailers to predict customers buying patterns, big data is a revolution occurring around us, in the process of forever changing economics, science, culture, and the very way we think. But it also poses new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven t even done yet, based on big data s ability to predict our future behavior. What we have already seen is just the tip of the iceberg. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Data\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major book about this earthshaking subject, with two leading experts explaining what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. \u003cbr\u003e An optimistic and practical look at the Big Data revolution just the thing to get your head around the big changes already underway and the bigger changes to come. 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