In the era of big data, the battle for privacy has already been
fought and lost – personal data is routinely collected and traded in the
new economy and there are few effective controls over how it is used or
secured. Data researchers and analysts now say that it’s time for
legislation to reclaim some of that privacy and ensure that any data
that is collected remains secure.
“We have become the product,”
says Rob Livingstone, a fellow of the University of Technology and the
head of a business advisory firm.
“We are being productised and
sold to anyone,” he said. “We’re being monetised in essence. We are
being mobilised as products with inducement of the services of we use
such as Facebook and Twitter.”
However, Livingstone says the
dilemma facing regulators is how they can regulate the collection,
storage and trading of personal data on the on the internet, when all of
these activities, and the corporations themselves, operate across
multiple continents and jurisdictions.
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