The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released "Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective," a report on new ways to build privacy protections into information technology systems. The report's authors back the routine, consistent use of encryption and other security technologies to protect personal data as it moves across networks. They also support boosting research and adding scale to some types of security protections that are now being implemented manually. Technology can help reduce privacy risks but policy is needed as well, says report co-author and University of California, Berkeley professor Susan Graham.  To read further, please visit http://fcw.com/articles/2014/04/30/big-data-privacy-report.aspx. ‘