Technological, Organizational and Environmental Security and Privacy Issues of Big Data: A Literature Review

This paper provides a literature review on security and privacy issues of big data. These issues are classified into three contexts; technological, organizational and environmental that is meant to facilitate future research. The main objectives of the review are to identify security and privacy issues of big data and to categorize the issues into a classification framework. The outcome of this review reveals that security and privacy issues of big data not only originate from technological deficiencies, but it may also be the outcome of organizational culture and environmental influences. At the end of review for each of the contexts, main issues were extracted and presented as potential factors that may affect organizational intention to adopt big data.