A Review on Big Data: Privacy and Security Challenges

In the age of technological innovations, the amount of data is increasing to a great extent. With this, an increasing trend is observed in the field of big data in industries as well as science. The scientific and industrial values of big data are growing high up to large magnitude. The technology of big data can be derived in many applications, but the main concern is the issue of security as well as privacy of data. This paper discusses the dimensions of big data and surveys the current research carried out on security as well as privacy of big data. The issues and the factors affecting the security are discussed. Furthermore, privacy-preserving approaches are also discussed and elaborated.