Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide (Hardcover)

Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide supplies a clear understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it reveals, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact the use of the insights and the data. Providing business executives and lawyers (in-house and in private practice) with an accessible primer on Big Data and its business implications, this book will enable readers to quickly grasp the key issues and effectively implement the right solutions to collecting, licensing, handling, and using Big Data.

The book brings together subject matter experts who examine a different area of law in each chapter and explain how these laws can affect the way your business or organization can use Big Data. These experts also supply recommendations as to the steps your organization can take to maximize Big Data opportunities without increasing risk and liability to your organization.

• Provides a new way of thinking about Big Data that will help readers address emerging issues
• Supplies real-world advice and practical ways to handle the issues
• Uses examples pulled from the news and cases to illustrate points
• Includes a non-technical Big Data primer that discusses the characteristics of Big Data and distinguishes it from traditional database models

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the book will help executives, managers, and counsel better understand the interrelationships between Big Data, decisions based on Big Data, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact its use. After reading this book, you will be able to think more broadly about the best way to harness Big Data in your business and establish procedures to ensure that legal considerations are part of the decision.

《大數據：商業與法律指南》提供了對大數據、其揭示的新商業洞察力以及影響洞察力和數據使用的法律、法規和合同實踐之間相互關係的清晰理解。本書為企業高管和律師（內部和私人執業）提供了一本關於大數據及其商業影響的易於理解的入門書，讀者能夠迅速掌握關鍵問題並有效實施正確的解決方案，以收集、許可、處理和使用大數據。

本書匯集了各個法律領域的專家，每章專家都會檢視一個不同的法律領域，並解釋這些法律如何影響您的企業或組織使用大數據的方式。這些專家還提供了建議，以便您的組織能夠在不增加風險和責任的情況下最大限度地利用大數據機會。

本書提供了一種新的思考大數據的方式，將幫助讀者應對新興問題。它提供了現實世界的建議和實際處理問題的方法，並通過新聞和案例來說明觀點。此外，本書還包括一個非技術性的大數據入門，討論了大數據的特徵，並將其與傳統數據庫模型區分開來。

本書採用跨學科的方法，將幫助高管、經理和法律顧問更好地理解大數據、基於大數據的決策以及影響其使用的法律、法規和合同實踐之間的相互關係。閱讀本書後，您將能夠更廣泛地思考如何在您的業務中利用大數據，並建立程序以確保法律考慮因素成為決策的一部分。