ICT Giants pushing for declassified information from the PRISM case

The EU evaluates to reconsider diplomatic relations with us.UU amid allegations of espionage to Community citizens.

The PRISM program espionage and wiretaps by U.S. citizens has led to technology giants involved to clarify its position on this issue after demand transparency from the Administration.

Throughout the week the information has gone out little by little and begin to shuffle clear numbers on the volume affected by the transfer of data from the companies to the authorities.

Facebook and Microsoft have been the first to announce the scope of the requests made to them by the Government and in all cases the figures are surprising.

In the last 6 months of 2012 Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests of data that involved a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 users. Microsoft has stated that during the second half of 2012 was between 6,000 and 7,000 petitions that adversely affected between 31,000 and 32,000 customer accounts.

From the December 1, 2012 until the 31 May 2013 Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests that committed to between 9,000 and 10,000 customers and the latest company to join give information has been Yahoo.

In your case, the data correspond to requests carried out between December 1, 2012 and on 31 May 2013, period in which accumulated between 12,000 and 13,000 Government demands of information for the sake of national security.

There are still to be known numbers from giants like Google in this national scandal and who has crossed borders.

Without going any further, the EU evaluates to reconsider diplomatic relations with the us.UU amid accusations that espionage under the PRISM program also has been conducted with European citizens.

The bloc of 27 studies measures although some countries try to approach it as a national opportunity.

This is the case of France, as ZDNet, where the French Minister for innovation and digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, said that if PRISM turns out to be true is relevant to locate data centers and servers in national territory "in order to ensure greater security of data".

By 2020 there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information

Win the career success of those companies able to convert large volumes of data into knowledge.

Within 7 years there will be 35.2 zettabytes of digital information. What is this number? Considering that 1 zb is equal to one trillion gigabytes... it can be estimated that there will be more than 37,000 million GB in circulation by in cyberspace.

For those who still do not is the idea. 1.8 zb are equivalent to 200 HD movies billion.

With these data on the table, not strange that Big Data profile as a driving force in the information age, where the data will be that drink and water will depend on much of the business world.

The main sources that generate large amounts of data are, according to estimates of Sogeti, traditional business applications, mobile data, search engines, social networks and the information from sensors.

The companies that get separate the really valuable from other information, process it and turn it into knowledge will be those who win the race. And therefore will require a strategy for Big Data, with a strong roadmap that would raise benefits in the medium term. Gartner estimates do not give rise to doubts: companies that climbing on Big Data will have some results financierosn 20% best to those who do not.