Big Data Challenges

This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data. Written in a clear and accessible style, it offers fresh insights to the deep reaching implications of Big Data for communication, privacy and organisational decision-making. It seeks to demystify developments around Big Data before evaluating their current and likely future implications for areas as diverse as corporate innovation, law enforcement, data science, journalism, and food security. The contributors call for a rethinking of the legal, ethical and philosophical frameworks that inform the responsibilities and behaviours of state, corporate, institutional and individual actors in a more networked, data-centric society. In doing so, the book addresses the real world risks, opportunities and potentialities of Big Data.

Defines the ethical and innovation challenges for national security in a Big Data age Identifies the pressing need to unify corporate and governmental actors driving Big Data's progress with political, regulatory and other social actors Argues for a coalition of knowledge and understanding from within the sciences (e.g. engineering), humanities and the arts to better realise and maintain Big Data's challenges for Security

Autorentext

Anno Bunnik is a researcher at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His research interests include intelligence, law enforcement, national security and counter-terrorism.

Anthony Cawley is Lecturer in Media at Liverpool Hope University, UK. His research interests include media industry innovation, news framing of current affairs, online journalism, media history, and Big Data and media.

Michael Mulqueen is a serving senior police officer involved in initiatives to exploit the opportunities of digital intelligence and investigation through ethical innovation. He previously was Professor of Media and Security Innovation at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Andrej Zwitter holds the NGIZ Chair in International Relations at the Faculty of Law, the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research foci include ethics in international politics and law, Big Data ethics, state of emergency politics, as well as law and politics of humanitarian action.

Inhalt

List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction to Big Data Challenges.- Part One Between Mathematics and Philosophy.- Man vs Machine: The Battle for the Soul of Data Science.- The Network-Effect on Ethics in the Big Data Age.- Security Networks and Human Autonomy a Philosophical Investigation.- Is There a Press Release on That? The Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data for News-Media.- Part Two Implications for Security.- Sustainable Innovation: Placing Ethics at the Core of Security in a Big Data Age.- Needles in Haystacks: Law, Capability, Ethics and Proportionality in Big-Data Intelligence-Gathering.- Countering and Understanding Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalisation in a Big Data Age.- Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement's Big Data Revolution.- Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Big Data: Commercial Satellite Imagery and its Promise of Speed and Transparency.- Using Big Data to Achieve Food Security.- Index.