BIG DATA AND PRIVACY: A TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (White House)

ta REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BIG DATA AND PRIVACY: A TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Executive Office of the President President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology May 2014 REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BIG DATA AND PRIVACY: A TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Executive Office of the President President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology May ʹͲͳ4 About the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is an advisory group of the Nation’s leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the President to augment the science and technology advice available to him from inside the White House and from cabinet departments and other Federal agencies. PCAST is consulted about, and often makes policy recommendations concerning, the full range of issues where understandings from the domains of science, technology, and innovation bear potentially on the policy choices before the President. For more information about PCAST, see www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Co‐Chairs John P. Holdren Eric S.