Category: Blog Article

Truth in Pictures: What Google Image Searches Tell Us About Inequality at Work

Gender Bias, Google, Racial Bias, Representation, Search Engine

Author: Gretchen Hellman; Publisher: Diversity Employers; Publication Year: 2017. The following article speaks about the bias of search engines. If you were to look for images of a “professor” or “CEO” you would find images…
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Why Marketers Must Embrace Ethical Data Use

Advertising, Customer Trust, Data Confidentiality, Marketing, Personal Data, Transparency

Author: Gabrielle Robitaille; Publisher: World Federation of Advertisers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on how gaining consumer trust is key for business success, and the adoption of data ethics in marketing and advertising…
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Big Data, Ethics and Children

Accountability, Child Rights, Children, Data Collection, Data Literacy, Transparency

Author: Gabrielle Berman; Publisher: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Publication Year: 2017. In the following article, the author begins with the statistic that an estimated 1 out of 3 internet users are children. Children now…
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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Netflix

Artificial Intelligence, Data Usage, Netflix

Author: Gabby Hoefer; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about the ethicality of Netflix’s recommendation artificial intelligence. Something interesting: you can access all of the data Netflix has about your viewing habits.…
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Ethics in Natural Language Processing

Aggregation Bias, Deployment Bias, Evaluation Bias, Learning Bias, Natural Language Processing Technology, Slang

Author: Future Analytica; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses data ethics in context of natural language processing. Several types of bias that we need to watch out for are learning bias, evaluation…
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Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Explicability, Fairness, Machine Learning, Prevention of Harm

Author: N/A; Publisher: Intrepid Tech Ventures; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how when data ethical considerations comes to mind, many people go straight to ethics relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.…
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Advancing Racial Equity with Data

American Statistical Association, ASA Antiracism Task Force, Racial Equity, Racial Justice

Author: Emily Hadley Publisher: RTI International Publication Year: 2022 Summary: The following article discusses how since 2020, the American Statistical Association (ASA) created the ASA Antiracism Task Force to advance racial equity and justice. The…
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What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?

9th Amendment, Data Storage, Differential Privacy, Facebook, Private Data, Public Data, Social Media

Author: Elisa Celis; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how Facebook is currently the largest social media platform and stores enormous amounts of data. Facebook has data from a user’s…
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The Ethics of the AI Song Contest

Artificial Intelligence, Credit and Attribution, Music

Author: Ed Newton-Rex, Hendrik Vincent Koops; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the ethical considerations behind using artificial intelligence (AI) to help create music. The author served as a judge for a…
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