Its flagship solution is a six-year historical database of over 13 billion DNS records, which Vixie says is the biggest such source ever built. Anti-spam measuresHe is also a pioneer in anti-spam measures, having co-founded the not-for-profit Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) in 1998. “When it comes to something like genetics, or something like Big Data, big data analytics, de-anonymisation, there is no hope that [the average person] could possibly give informed consent about how their DNA is used. That’s a choice.”Drawing on an analogy from Prof Shoshana Zuboff’s new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, he likens the current challenge to tame Big Data to the fight against Big Tobacco. “America had its day of reckoning with Big Tobacco and we’re going to have to have it now with Big Data.

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2019 03:33 UTC