The Duality of Big Data: The Angel and the Demon

Over the last few years, we underwent a change in perspectives on the U.S. government — and more specifically, the NSA. It all started when whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of secret NSA data collection programs.

Since then, the media and security analysts have debated back and forth concerning the usage of these collection programs and the subsequent analysis, which can all be rolled into one proverbial buzzword: big data.

Will the good coming from big data outweigh the bad (think: big brother, privacy…)?  Interesting article from +WIRED