A Novel Approach to Ensure Privacy in Big Data
D. Angelin Benita · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · 2018
The latest buzzword in the information technology sphere is Big Data and the technologies pertaining to it. With the greater access to the Internet through the so called Internet of Things (IoT) content exchange through various media via the Internet has massively increased. All the data obtained has to be stored somewhere and with massive quanta of data stored through clouds it gives an opportunity to mine massive amount of Knowledge. Although this is welcome direction it can also invade into privacy and security of a person. If for example consider a hospital which stores massive amounts of data, it can be useful to mine potential patterns of symptoms among various patients for a particular disease spread across various age groups and hence forth. But the data can also reveal details about a single person. If this info falls into the hands of the wrong person then we are talking about intrusion of privacy. Security and Privacy are two different terms. Security determines who can access the data which can be monitored and privacy becomes an issue when what one does with that data. Lot of security mechanisms are in place nowadays. But privacy is still a wanting topic. Hence in this approach a unique approach is being proposed that will safe guard one private information is the age of Big Data.