Aus Sicht der Stiftung Datenschutz – Privacy in the age of Big Data

When discussing Big Data issues, one will be well advised to prepare for a high degree of complexity. In 2012, a United Nations report predicted that the worldwide amount of data would be 44 times larger in 2020 than it was in 2007. The report also forecasted that in 2012 and 2013 more digitized data were created than during the entire previous history of mankind. Whether this will prove true or not, it does give us an idea about the sheer amount of data we are amassing.