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Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
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ECCS, Satellite “Compolicy” Lucca :: 24 September 2014
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keynote speech by VALERIO ELETTIvalerio.eletti@uniroma1.it
THE IMPORTANCE OF POLICIES IN BIG DATA MANAGEMENT
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
Agenda
we open the Satellite with a general survey that enables us to better contextualize the oncoming speeches of the day Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
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What does Complexity have to do with Big Data? They have both technical and social resonances
A. Technical resonances: in Big Data, as in complex systems, we can observe:
Great abundance of elements Non-linear relationships among elements Emerging patterns Possibility of spotting clusters and hierarchies
(emergence of complexity levels) Possibility of studying the topology of the network of
relationships between data and their clusters
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYComplexity and Big Data
What does Complexity have to do with Big Data? They have both technical and social resonances
B. Social resonances:
Big Data concern complex social relationships and complex social statuses
Mega data sets can be studied with a “memetic” approach (viral diffusion of signals)
Big Data entail the complex problem of conflicts and cooperation between public benefit and the right to privacy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYDisambiguation
Let’s have a look at the terms Big Data and Privacy
A. Big Data: two different main typologies:
Mega sets of historical consistent data (that can be used for instance to train neural networks for simulations)
Composite and non-consistent mega data sets from which we can obliquely extract meaning (classic examples: forecasts based on the queries of Google on the spread of flu; previsions on stock market based on Twitter sentiment). This is the category that mainly requires clear policy guidelines in Big Data management to protect citizens privacy.
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYDisambiguation
Let’s have a look at the terms Big Data and Privacy
B. Privacy: a notion to clarify
Past. The notion of Privacy has been changing over the last centuries: from village to city, and back to village (the McLuhan’s global one)
Present. The notion of Privacy is now in a turbulent phase of transition: for example, see how Byung-Chul Han, in his research Transparenzgesellschaft, 2012, defines our current society: of positive, of exposure, of evidence, porn, of acceleration, of intimacy, of information, of unveiling and of control, in the current post-capitalist world
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYExamples of mega data sets
Let’s see some current - extreme and paradoxical - concrete cases of mega data sets that sweep up data, and that require an accurate management of the complex problem of the conflict between public benefit and privacy:
A. Internet of things
B. Sharing our own DNA in social networks
C. Real life analytics
D. Big Data from porn
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYExamples of mega data sets
A. Internet of things Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Technologywill be law in the USA by 2017
http://www.safercar.gov/v2v/index.html
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYExamples of mega data sets
B. Sharing our own DNA in social networks 23andMe: the largest DNA ancestry service in the world
Https://www.23andme.com
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYExamples of mega data sets
C. Real life analytics Pathflow: “We study how customers move and behave inside a location … and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis …”
http://www.pathflow.co
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
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D. Big Data from porn “Pig Data” are the huge quantities of data that the Mindgeek group gathers from its Web porno sites as PornHub and YouPorn: in the year 2013 they had 14,7 billions of visitors who saw 63,2 billions of videos. Few people know that:
PornHub works on 5.000 terabyte everyday; while Facebook works on 600 terabytes…
PornHub has 1 billion visitors every month; while Tumblr has less than one fourth…
Wired Italia, September 2014
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTurbulent environment
We must not forget that Big Data revolution is happening in a context that becomes more and more alarming as the followings items grow exponentially:
The strength of hubs that can collect digital data social networks, as Facebook or Twitter search engines, as Google cloud providers, as IBM or ChinaCache gatherers of videos/images, as You Tube or Pinterest telephone companies, as AT&T or Vodafone banks and insurance companies, as Axa or ICBC geolocation’s systems, as Geobytes or IP2Location e-commerce hubs as Alibaba, Amazon, eBay,
Taobao
…
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTurbulent environment
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The secret agreements of these scraping-data hubs with intelligence agencies
The development of semantic engines able to perceive the meaning (ref. Web 3.0, as foretold by Tim Berners-Lee)
The application of effective instruments such as soft computing and artificial neural networks
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Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTurbulent environment
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The available memory and the computing capacity, as for example:
Systems of parallel computing (artificial intelligence) as Watson IBM (that demonstrated enough intellectual abilities to win at “Jeopardize”)
Systems of quantistic computing that can decode any kind of encryption,
... and even survey systems in our subconscious, such as the one studied by CEEDS
…
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTurbulent environment
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and the remote but real possibility to reach the singularity that could mark the overtaking of the human brain by artificial intelligences
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
We can individuate three main approaches to Big Data management
Encrypting on-line messages
Bill of digital rights and duties
Pricing and selling our data to Web giants
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
Encrypting on-line messages
oMain reference: Google policy to Chinese users
oThe policy followed by many web and mobile companies to associate the encryption to messages’ self-destruction (i.e.: Wickr, Telegram, RedPhone, TeextSecure)
oA solution admired by opinion leaders such as Snowden and Greenwald (see the speech at SXSW Festival in Austin, 2014)
oBut …
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
Encrypting on-line messages
o… But there are two questions to be answered:
• Can we really trust corporations asserting that they will encrypt or destroy our messages?
• And, even if we trust them, and we subscribe to those new encrypted networks, who will protect the acquisition of our data, which is in any case done outside the Internet and the mobile networks?
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
Bill of digital rights and duties
oIt is a proposal referring to the origin of Western democratic tradition (see Tim Berners-Lee, The Guardian, 12 march 2014 or the video “Establish web’s principles on openness and privacy”)
o… But we have two more questions:
• Are we sure that a “Magna Charta” is sufficient to defend citizens’ right of privacy?
• And why similar initiatives such as the one proposed by Stefano Rodotà in 2007 did not lead to any result?
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
Pricing and selling our data to Web giants
oThe first start-ups based on this idea are about to be realized; see for example Datacoup, that offers 8 euros per month to those who willingly allow the company to use their on-line data https://datacoup.com
oThis is a bottom-up solution (not a top-down one, as the two previous cases): a solution from the inside, characteristic of complex systems that are able to organize themselves on simple and clear laws (ref. to the Jaron Lanier, “You are not a gadget”, 2010)
oKey sentence: “The one who steals the privacy defends his privacy very well” (see “Le Scienze”, February 2014)
oBut …
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThree policy hypotheses
Pricing and selling our data to Web giants
o… But there is a question:
• Assuming that the bottom-up settings will work on mobile and Internet, what about the protection of data that reach big corporations and governments’ storages via banks, video surveillance, Internet of things, geolocation, health care facilities, traffic monitoring and so on?
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: actors
Up to now it is still impossible to foresee the solutions that will be found, dictated or accepted by single actors, or at a general rules’ level. Anyway, we can distinguish three different areas of interest:
o Area of both individual and collective data
o Area of collective anonymized data
o Area of data on actions/contacts of single citizens
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Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: actors
o Area of both individual and collective data:
Public: sets of data collected by intelligence agencies of democratic or not democratic governments
Private: data collected, analyzed and utilized by private companies
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Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: actors
o Area of collective anonymized data
Public: data sets (mostly open data) from which tendencies to handle traffic, epidemic, and so on are gathered
Private: data sets from which private companies can gain information for viral marketing
…
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: actors
o Area of data on actions/contacts of single citizens
Public: data used with the aim to get social and political control led by intelligence agencies and governments, both democratic and totalitarian ones
Private: data used to improve a customized commercial offer by big companies managing every kind of networks
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: territories
The issue of managing big data acquires different aspects of social risk depending on the intersection between
o geographical position (i.e. more or less democratic countries vs totalitarian ones)
and
o involved actors (intelligence agencies, telecom, web companies, and so on)
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: a note
Commonly, in Western countries private citizens are not worried about leaving their traces in the web, in search engines, or in social networks, because of a deep-seated trust in liberal governments’ use of those traces to control and protect citizens
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYTemporary conclusions
Temporary conclusions: policies
The solution to the problem of privacy cannot be just one, imposed from above, the same for everybody, but it has to be found by attempts, mistakes and corrections, starting from the bottom, as it always happens in biological and social complex systems
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYAgenda
agenda
Complexity and Big Data
Disambiguation
Concrete examples of mega data sets
Turbulent environment
Three policy hypotheses
Temporary conclusions
The speeches of Compolicy
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThe speeches of Compolicy
The speeches of Compolicy
There are thousands of ongoing researches deepening singular aspects of Big Data managing and trying to plan a shared setting.
Among these,some of the speeches we are going to hear today are of particular importance.
So, I am now asking Francesco Niglia to give a survey of the next speeches ...
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThe speeches of Compolicy
The speeches of Compolicy
Agents reasoning under uncertainty: an extended BDI model in the JADEx framework
Forecasting transitions in systems with high dimensional stochastic complex dynamics: A Linear Stability Analysis of the Tangled Nature Model
Use of multi-level self-regulating agents
Discovering best practices in emergency response with combined physical and organizational simulation
…
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
COMPOLICYThe speeches of Compolicy
The speeches of Compolicy
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Risk-Based Compliance and the Power Grid as Smart Territory: A Cased-Based, Complex Systems Perspective
Mutual shaping between technologies and law: e-health
Product End of Use Management Networks: ABM Approach
Spatial and Topological Diffusion of Electrical Vehicles in Urban Environments
Valerio Eletti :: The Importance of Policies in Big Data Management ECCS14 :: Lucca, 24 settembre 2014
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Thank you.
You can contact me at: valerio.eletti@uniroma1.it
or on the site of Complexity Education Projectwww.complexityeducation.it
Thanks