Big Data Collides with IP Law. Intellectual Property Data Protection

Information is the real currency of the present day and likely will be for the future. At least until that meteor gets here. Its been that way for a long time, actually. Think all the way back to World War Two. Information was the key to the war. Whoever controlled the flow of information, the transmitting of it, the encrypting and decrypting of it, would be sure to be the victor. The Enigma machine was an early encryption device used by the Nazis to transmit their most important orders and reports. They considered it to be absolutely secure. Fortunately, they were wrong. The allies were able to decrypt the messages, allowing them to forestall many attacks and shorten the war, saving untold lives as a result. Today, information and its rapid processing, understanding, and application control trillions of dollars in the global economy. Countries, businesses, and of course individuals rise and fall based on their command of the available data. With that much riding on it, the question of who o