Open Source and the Big Data dilemma Consumers are forced to choose between proprietary systems that limit their ownership and Open Source alternatives that exploit their data.

The IoT, while bringing significant service improvements to consumers and manufacturers, also brings concerns regarding the privacy and security of the underlying data.

The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by ...

More than 40% of organizations surveyed by Anaconda say they’re pulling back on their use of open source data science tools due to security concerns, with potential vulnerabilities such as Log4j the ...

OpenSNP, a large open source repository for user-uploaded genetic data, will shut down and delete all of its data at the end of April, co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has confirmed.

A recent push in the information technology industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regulation from some governments ...

Wary of privacy implications of massive data collection systems, the Senate Commerce Committee plans to continue a probe of the industry, coinciding with a separate inquiry underway at the Federal ...

A new data privacy report finds that nearly half of respondents consider data privacy the tech industry’s biggest concern.

It's no secret that Hadoop and Apache Spark are two of the hottest technologies in big data today, but what's less commonly remarked upon is the fact that they're both open-source software.