Big data and the “internet of things” — in which everyday objects can send and receive data — promise revolutionary change to management and society. But their success rests on an assumption: that all the data being generated by internet companies and devices scattered across the planet belongs to the organizations collecting it. What if it doesn’t?
What If Companies Don’t Own All That Data They’re Collecting?
A conversation with MIT professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland.
October 17, 2014
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