Dr David Macnish, former GCHQ employee has advised that the government should extend the data protection act to protect citizens who are increasingly involved in large data mining projects undertaken by corporations and governments, often unknowingly. If an ethics board was enforced, it would affect many UK companies embarking on big data projects to better understand its customers,as well as tech giants like Google, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter whose business model runs on collecting information about its users.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Techworld