Prof. Dr. Jörn von Lucke
health data. In the UK, survival rates after operations and other clinical interventions have been collected and analysed for years. However, it was only a few years ago that this data was made freely accessible [...] refers to databases that companies or citizens make freely available to others. This includes image collections, music data, publication data and lexical data, research data and medical research results, as [...] in financial terms. The company climate.com (The Climate Corporation: www.climate.com ) has been collecting climate data of all kinds for years and intersecting them with each other. They must have been