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ASPI urges government to see beyond the ‘hype’ of big data

ASPI urges government to see beyond the ‘hype’ of big data

August 4, 2017

Via: ZDnet
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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released a report canvassing the potential downsides of big-data analytics in the national security domain. In Big data in national security: Online resource, the think tank that advises Australia’s strategic and defence leaders recommends policy makers not be swept up in the hype surrounding big data to tackle national security threats such as terrorism.

According to the report [PDF], challenges to big data analytics include overhyped expectations, the inherent complexity of big data, the difficulty of cost-benefit analyses, data siloes and fragmentation, and the opacity of algorithms.

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