Marc Rotenberg

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Guest

Director of Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, and and Adjunct Professor in Information Privacy Law at Georgetown University; member of the at-large advisory committee of ICANN, the international organization responsible for many basic operations of the internet and co-author Privacy, Information and Technology and Information Privacy Law

Marc Rotenberg on KCRW

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Big Data -- the accumulation of massive amounts of information just for its own sake -- is the revenge of the nerds, a booming generator of money and power.

Will Big Data and Big Money Mean Big Trouble?

Big Data -- the accumulation of massive amounts of information just for its own sake -- is the revenge of the nerds, a booming generator of money and power.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the Internet is so pervasive that governments must regulate it or face what he calls "anarchy."

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