Does Big Data Steal Your Soul?

“As we just saw, having just a single picture of someone can give you a form of power over that person. Will big data steal your soul outright?”

[Uncharted, Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michael]

When photography is unveiled in the world, Some people believed that this scary box captures their spirit and then they should live in the rest of their life without a soul. It is quite silly in nowadays but we now think about our privacy (instead of a soul).

Today, big social media companies collect data from every single person. Even they try to anonymize the data by replacing user identifiers with random numbers, Big data is always exposed to the risk of a violation of privacy. Hence, data scientists should make a delicate effort to keep someone’s privacy when making a data-driven model.

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