Use of Big Data to predict human behaviour demands regulation, says UCC professor
Posted in Legal issues, Teaching on October 22nd, 2015 by steve
“Privacy and data protection legislation worldwide is ill-equipped to deal with the Big Data revolution, according to a University College Cork professor. Professor Maeve McDonagh from UCC’s School of Law and an academic lawyer was speaking at a panel discussion at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, organised by the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations and UCC …” (more)
[Steve Neville, Irish Examiner, 21 October]
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