Big Data and Governance in the United
Kingdom
AAAS, February 13th 2015
Dr Claire Craig
Director, Government Office for Science, UK
Opportunities
Reducing fraud and error
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Big Data and Governance in the United Kingdom
Targetting services
Opportunities
Building resilience
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Smarter insights
Challenges: laws and practice keeping up
with technology
Stored Digital
Information
Human
Rights
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Data
Protection
European
Convention
on Human
Rights
Regulation of
Investigatory
Powers
Freedom of
EU Data
Information
Protection
1950
[Illustrative]
1980
1990
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2000
Data
Retention
and
Investigatory
Powers
2010
Challenges: skills
Curiosity
Machine
Learning
Data
Science
Substantive
Expertise
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Challenges: collective goods and individual
protection
Tackling Ebola, 2014
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Big Data and Governance in the United Kingdom
Amsterdam, 1941
Challenges: nations moving in step?
National identity
and values
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Stem cells
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Fracking
GM Crops
Framing discussion: privacy “sliders”
Directly
identifiable
Free on the
internet
Obfuscation
Access / Environment
(Everyone)
Little legislation
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Anonymised to the
point of losing
valuable content
Locked in a steellined room
(Accredited researcher)
Governance and
accountability
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Highly legislated
Building ethics in to the start of the
process
Benefit
Data & Tools
“Critical Trust”
Tech limits
Legal?
Ethical?
Transparency
Assess
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GO!
Next?
Jobs “at risk”
Source: Bruegel calculations based on Frey &
Osborne (2013), ILO, EU Labour Force Survey
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Internet of Things
Moving forward…….
Alan Turing Institute
The 100k Genome Project
Photo top right from The Imitation Game, Remstar
Films, 2014
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Thank you!
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Big Data and Governance in the United Kingdom