About Privacy, Big Data and Facebook (from SwissNex event April 11, 2012)

Thanks to Fora TV for making this available see http://youtu.be/zK8k6jJogT8

More details at http://www.mediafuturist.com/2012/04/...

Complete video of the entire session is at: http://fora.tv/2012/04/10/Data_is_the...

Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, discusses the business, politics, and ramifications of big data and privacy. Leonard argues that there is a trade-off to free social media services. Data is exploding all around us: every 'like,' check-in, tweet, click, and play is being logged and mined. Many data-centric companies such as Google are already paying us for our data by providing more or less free services.

Join leading futurists at swissnex in a debate co-organized by Switzerland's The Futures Agency (TFA) on data as today's key global resource.

Is data the new oil? Data will become a key currency, as it is a virtually limitless, non-rival, and exponentially growing good. Do we need regulations or trust frameworks to deal with it? Can data really be safeguarded in an entirely free-market system governed by commercial interests? What will Generation AO (always-on) share with whom, when, where, and how? And if data is the new oil, how do we avoid wars and global conflicts fought over it?

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