Author: Dierdre Mask
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: The following book does not talk about data ethics per say, it does focus on the ethics on how locations are identified. Having a street address can increase access to healthcare (it is difficult for healthcare workers to find a home that does not have an address) and enable people to hold jobs (many employers solely rely on direct deposit, but banks require a physical home address; this system makes it even more difficult for the homeless to get jobs), but the address or neighborhood where a person lives may also lead to bias, especially when it is used in artificial intelligence or machine learning models. The book also discusses the challenges of having decades – or centuries – old street names that in modern times are considered ethnic, racial, or sexual slurs.