Data pollution is the digital equivalent of an oil spill

28/09/2021 | Datatilsynet

An article posted on The Privacy Blog for Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, likens data and today's digital challenges to an oil spill. "We need to talk more about the pollution, emissions and the collective damaging effects of the big data age," they said. "We must lift the conversation and policy-making towards an understanding of privacy as a collective good, in addition to a fundamental right at the individual level."  

Google translated, the original version is available here.

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