Welcome! This guide will serve as a starting point for Shippensburg University students wishing to conduct research on various aspects of the national debate over big data and privacy issues. You will find sources that introduce you to your topic and keep you up-to-date with links to news articles, research websites, books, journal articles, and research reports concerning big data and privacy issues.
You will also find selected key publications, books & E-books, research organizations and advocacy groups, data sources and links to general and specialized databases for further research.
Main Term(s): big data, privacy
Related Terms: cyber warfare, digital footprint, intellectual freedom, internet usage monitoring, cloud computing, data mining, internet of things
Broader Terms: electronic data processing, database management
Narrower Terms: right of privacy, internet and privacy
Hackers and Hacking: A Reference Handbook by 
Online Privacy: A Reference Handbook by 
Big Data: An Exploration of Opportunities, Values, and Privacy Issues by 
From Big Data to Smart Data by 
Digital Privacy in the Marketplace: Perspectives on the Information Exchange by 
Facebook Nation by 
Security and Privacy in Social Networks by 
Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data by 
Islands of Privacy by 
Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms by 
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life by A number of important national newspapers have topic or issue sections of their website that bring together all the paper's articles on particular topics. The leading example of this is "Times Topics" from the New York Times. Each topic guide/section has a search tool that lets you refine your search.
Unfortunately, these sections are often not easy to browse or locate on the newspaper websites. Use the "High Quality Web Source Finder" search box above to search for your topic. Then choose the Newspaper Topic Guides tab to look for these in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. If you should hit a pay wall when browsing these newspapers, simply search for articles from any of these three papers using the ProQuest Newstand library database.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research division of Congress. It issues detailed research reports on a very wide range of issues. CRS doesn't maintain its own website, but its reports are available through several organizations and libraries.
