Over the last few months the Obama administration has been conducting a number of public sessions (at NYU, UC Berkeley, and MIT) on issues around big data and privacy. There's now a page up on the White House web site which collects material on all these sessions, the administration's Big Data report, a related report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and some summaries of the input the administration has been hearing. Lots of interesting material here (I have not been through it all yet):

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI