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Ethics of Big Data by Kord Davis is quite philosophical book about the ethical issues of collection and exploitation of the BigData. I would say it's more oriented to the CTOs and general management audience then to the developers. It contains an interesting analysis of the Fortune 50 privacy policies and also suggests a comprehensive framework for facilitating ethical discussions in the business environment.

Yesterday in the Palais des Congrès of Paris started the Microsoft TechDays 2013 . Microsoft is well known to conduct useful events for the IT community and the TechDays 2013 is not an exception.  I was subscribed for the first day of the event, actually the most interesting for developers. My agenda contained basically the .NET related sessions and one BigData session. The day started with a keynote "Développeurs, c'est vous le chef !!" guided by  Jean Ferré , Director of DPE. It was presented in the very French way of a cooking session, where for each case you have an aperitif and than you are preparing entrée, plat and dessert. And each of that dishes is an app made tout de suite by the speakers. There were clear points in this keynote related to the strategy of today's Microsoft. It's not the company which blindly focuses on their own solutions anymore. Microsoft decided to go the way to diversify the use of the technology and finally accept