Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide – eBook

Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide, (PDF) supplies a simple understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it discloses, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that affect the use of the insights and the data. Offering business executives and lawyers (in-house and in private practice) with an available primer on Big Data and its business implications, this ebook will enable readers to quickly understand the key issues and effectively apply the right solutions to collecting, licensing, handling, and using Big Data.

The ebook brings together subject matter experts who explore a different area of law in each chapter and describe how these laws can affect the way your business or organization can use Big Data. These experts also provide recommendations as to the steps your organization can take to maximize Big Data opportunities without adding risk and liability to your organization.

• Uses examples pulled from the news and cases to show points

• Provides real-world advice and practical ways to manage the issues

• Offers a new way of thinking about Big Data that will help readers address emerging issues

• Contains a non-technical Big Data primer that discusses the characteristics of Big Data and distinguishes it from traditional database models

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the ebook will help managers, executives, and counsel better understand the associations between Big Data, decisions based on Big Data, and the regulations, laws, and contracting practices that impact its use. After reading this ebook, you will be able to think more broadly about the best way to employ Big Data in your business and establish procedures to ensure that legal considerations are part of the decision.

NOTE: The product only includes the ebook, Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide in PDF. No access codes are included.