Guest Editorial: Introduction to the special section on security and privacy in the big data era (VSI-spbd)

Abstract

There is a rising need to secure data in the era of big data. But with the rapid development of technologies such as IoT and cloud computing, users’ security and privacy measures are under tremendous pressure. Big data has led the world to an inflection point in machine learning and analytics, where powerful software tools are able to analyze vast amounts of information and often make better decisions than humans can. A major challenge for preserving privacy in the big data era is that it is hard to anonymize data without losing valuable information. Furthermore, big data has huge potential as a force for good, but numerous security and privacy concerns will dramatically reshape how big data is governed in the years and decades to come. Security, privacy, and related issues have become critical because of the wide applications in many areas.