Big Data and Privacy

It is obvious that the biggest road block to Big Data is privacy law.  Like Right to Privacy.

Just like the biggest roadblock to Banks were laws that prohibited them from doing certain things until lobbying and enough money changed all that.

Banksters established the model on how to play the game where all the money was and how to demolish the road blocks.

There is immensely more money involved in Big Data as well as a bigger road block.

NSA seems to be running a blocking game for the real ball carriers that will make big bucks out of Big Data and bigger bucks if not hindered by privacy laws, rules and regs.  Whatever the NSA can block or knock down regarding privacy to establish a new playing field friendly to Big Data will benefit those that will make big bucks off Big Data at the expense of our rights to privacy.  They will merely redefine those rights.

Rights are absolute.  They apply to all and not in varying degrees.  We either them and violation of a single individual's right is a violation of all of us and our rights are not rights any longer but a function of what is expedient or a compromise with something that is so big it cannot be allowed to fail or be controlled.

All the big players involved in Big Data have so much to gain that a small thing like privacy will be no obstacle.  Especially when the business model of winning in Washington has been firmly established.

Big Banksters and Big Data are certainly an unholy and catastrophic alliance when Banksters begin to use Big Data to mine their data base.  That is the tool that NGDATA wants to sell.

Acxiom is already hard at work to manage public perception of big data and privacy.  The Big Data industry will certainly be doing this as well as buying up politicians in Washington.  The Center For Digital Democracy describes what Acxiom is doing here 

TomDispatch excellent comment on surveillance here  
mentions Ratheon Riot.  Video here