Cass Business School's professor of consumer marketing, Vince Mitchell, explains that Big Data differs from ordinary market research in that it is unobtrusive - hence the concerns about privacy. But he adds that Google is a prime example of clever use of Big Data - from using Android mobile phone signals to work out how traffic is behaving to Google Trends, the company is leading the way in trends analysis.
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