Challenges Facing Big Data Monitoring: Balancing Data Privacy Protection and Monitoring Needs

Group member: Yinghui Liu, Siya Zhou

Privacy leak

In recent years, digital technology and the inappropriate use of big data monitoring have caused many privacy leaks, which pose many potential risks to users.

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Benefits of big data monitoring

Big data monitoring has undoubtedly brought great convenience to our lives and is also very necessary, no matter in any industry. For example, Facebook provides a better user experience by using big data monitoring and analysis of user behavior and internal communication.

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Facebook’ s attempt

In order to better provide services to users while also protecting their privacy, various companies have made efforts to find a balance. For example, Facebook released a privacy progress report, which details how the company protects user privacy in the face of big data surveillance.

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Reference List

Privacy progress. Meta. (n.d.). https://about.meta.com/privacy-progress?utm_source=about.facebook.com&utm_medium=redirect

Pathak, A. (2022, October 31). Relationship between facebook and big data. Analytics Vidhya. https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2022/10/relationship-between-facebook-and-big-data/

13 biggest data breaches in Australia [updated 2023]: Upguard. RSS. (n.d.). https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches-australia