Big Data Aggregation

Big Data information aggregation is big business.  Big data aggregation simply involves putting "silo data" together in a larger data base.  The Intelligence sector discovered the need to do this after 9/11.  An independent aggregator of open source information filled this vacuum and called it Silo.

Oracle tells how to do it here.

Previously I blogged about how an aggregator got the various players in the license plate recognition industry together under its umbrella to combine access to each of its silos.

Recently a dear friend of mine discovered that she had a negative job rating from a health provider that at the last moment prior to her employment by a health service provider excluded her from a contract job.  The bad reference information was probably provided by a Data Aggregator.  They get their information from a variety of sources and sell it to a client.

A negative comment coming from somewhere that is aggregated in Big Data is hard to fight.  The aggregator is not responsible for it, they just aggregate it.  The source may not be known and furthermore, the fact that it is in a personal report received from a data aggregator on a person that is employed on contract by a health service provider may be unknown to the employee.

Such a report is almost impossible to fight.  It is a case of institutional information asymmetry that is simply unfair to the individual with no avenue of recourse.

The dear friend that was a victim in this situation is a dependable, conscience and skilled person that has suffered unjustly.  Big data is big business from which we must have protection.  Protection of the worker that most certainly will not be provided by the government nor granted generously by Big Business as fairness and justice would demand.

Big Data is something that must be controlled and regulated by government.  This will not happen.  Government does not seek to control its own in house big data.  When called to account for its failure it merely outsources it it Big Data business and throws all responsibility to private enterprise that it will not regulate any more than it regulates the financial sector.

Big Data is also Big Money.

My dear friend is only an individual victim of Big Data, Big Money and the foot soldiers in real estate and employment that carry out the strategies and tactics of Big Data and Big Money and often add their own agenda to unjustly and unfairly treat others for their own advancement, satisfaction and benefit.

Unions used to defend individuals.  Who champions the non-union employee?  The contract employee?  Any private individual when Big Data rules?