GDPR and big data - friends or foes?

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Is the GDPR a guiding light to the benefits of big data, or its death knell?

We have only just started to reap the benefits of big data - from foreseeing deadly infections to fraud detection.  It is a key source of value for many industry sectors: profiling, spotting market...

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