The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts

Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi

Publisher: National Library of Medicine

Publication Year: 2015

Summary: The following paper provides an ethical assessment of emerging Big Data practices and a framework for governance. The authors discuss 2 main ideas: epistemology and the big data gap. The big data gap describes how small companies are unable to compete with larger companies as datasets become increasingly complex because they do not have the resources to analyze these data.