As Facebook’s torrent fiasco and the Wikileaks war logs controversy have made crystal clear, big data has gotten too big to ignore. While we’d all like to think our data is secure, that belief runs contrary to the train of thought that information wants to be free.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with that line of thinking, it’s hard to deny that projects like IBM Research’s World Fact Dashboard empower us to look at the world in amazing new ways. In fact, one could argue that what we lose in personal privacy, we gain in collective knowledge.

So, what do you think — is it worth the tradeoff?

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