Jusletter IT

The introductory lecture of the Conference for Informatics and Law, which held place on 5 November 2014 on the subject «Big Data Governance», initially defines, what Big Data really is about. Business-critical information shall be diverted from huge amounts of data. Typically, these amounts of data come from different sources which are gathered in high speed. This is called «three Vs»: Volume, Variety and Velocity. The three big kinds of Big Data – classic Big Data, Freestyle respectively explorative Big Data and Big Data on the chart – are also explained and social and legal possibilities and problems are discussed. (ah)