Ethical Issues in Big Data

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Executive Summary
Big data is huge amount data or information that is pouring from the different data sources
and it has the various formats. There was the large amount of data stored in the database.
However, the customary database system, which is not able to handle the information or data.
Big data is the collection of the data set with the various formats. Very crucial asset may be
used for obtaining the enumerable benefits. For combating the privacy and security breach,
the investment should be on the quality of anti-malware software and entry security such as
tokenization or encryption should be implemented. The connection from the system of data
collection to the system of data storage should be secure. It requires ensuring that the
analytics never provide the inaccurate data for using to a trusted data analytics. The data
analytics tools will provide the highest level of accuracy in the big data. there are also many
legal protection, which will secure the data in the big data system. The government has
identified the issues and challenges to the security and privacy. However, many actions are
not taken to address the issues yet. This study concludes that if the tools or the techniques of
big data are implemented and used properly, the tools can mitigate the challenges of the big
data system.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Ethical Issues related to Big Data..............................................................................................3
Issue 1: Security and Privacy.................................................................................................3
Issue 2: Discrimination..........................................................................................................5
Issue 3: Sharing of Information and Data Access.................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Over past 20 years, information has growth in the big scale in many different fields.
According to the report from IDC (International Data Corporation) in 2011, the entire copied
and created volume of data was 1.8ZB, which is equivalent to 1021B. This data increased by
nine times in five years (Chen, Mao and Liu 2014). In the future, the figure of the volume of
data will be double in every two years. Big data is the epitome concept. Apart from the huge
data, it has many features, which differentiate between very big data and massive data. Big
data is the dataset, which is not able to perceive, processed, managed and acquired by the
software, hardware and IT tools (Hashem et al. 2015). The importance of integration of big
data has led to the substantial research over few years on the topics such as data fusion,
record linkage and schema mapping for dealing with the challenges faced by the big data
integration (Dong and Srivastava 2013). According to Gandomi and Haider, 2015, the fast
adoption and evolution of big data has leapfrogged to the outlets. To develop efficient and
appropriate methods for leveraging the massive volumes of the various data in the
unstructured audio, video and text format, which constitute near about 93% of big data.
The various issues of big data can be security and privacy, sharing of information and
data access, processing and storage issues, skill requirements, analytical challenges,
discrimination and technical challenges (Katal, Wazid and Goudar 2013).
Ethical Issues related to Big Data
Issue 1: Security and Privacy
In the new age of technology, data security is not limited only to the personal
information of individual but also the research and analysis of the data of the people and it is