Over the last few decades there has been a growing interest in protecting the security and privacy of personally identifiable information (PII), and new legislation has been passed by various governments with the intent of legally enforcing the protection of such sensitive data. With the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) massive volumes of “big data” are being collected continuously and stored on the cloud, and the issue of protecting the “PII in the sky” is becoming increasingly challenging. While IoT has given rise to endless opportunities for collection and sharing of data, Blockchain technologies have been successfully used to secure the authenticity of data and transactions involving the exchange of sensitive data. In this presentation we review some historical trends and challenges related to the evolution of data collection and storage and we discuss areas that will likely require the most attention over the next decades.
Department Chair and Professor of Statistics, Eastern Washington University, USA
Dr. Christian K. Hansen served as President of the IEEE Reliability Society (2014-2016) and is currently Department Chair and Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Eastern Washington University (EWU). He is been a faculty member at EWU since 1993 and served in a variety of academic and administrative leadership positions. He has been active in the statistics and reliability engineering profession for over 30 years and published broadly on a variety of applications involving data derived from engineering systems. Over the past two decades, he has been active with the IEEE Reliability Society and has served in leadership positions that include vice-president of publications and treasurer before being elected to president in 2013. Dr. Hansen is a graduate of the Technical University of Denmark with degrees in Electrical Engineering (MS, 1988) and Statistics (PhD, 1991).
