A short to long form of writing that informs and educates audience members on current events.
Author: Tom Davenport; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how gaining a competitive edge has been a long-time goal for teams within the sporting industry. The most well-known and recent example of a team crossing the ethical line into the territory of cheating is the Houston Astros in 2017. While the ethical issue was violating privacy, and it was only the opposing team’s…
Author: Safiya Noble; Publisher: TIME Magazine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article talks about how Google’s search algorithm is biased against the Black woman. It shows and talks about the author’s own identity as a black woman and she talks about how a simple search of black woman would result in pornography of Black girls on Google where as in fact a similar search of say white woman does not yield such…
Author: Tim Sandle; Publisher: Digital Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the need for change in healthcare data. Ethics should be more of a priority for healthcare organizations. The author argues that privacy is not currently being taken seriously enough, and there should be more regulations that healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations must follow. Many countries have laws…
Author: Thorin Klosowski; Publisher: The New York Times, Wirecutter; Publication Year: 2021. The following article points out the massive amount of data that is collected on us daily by all sorts of different companies. These companies sometimes sell this data, and other times the data gets hacked. It pointed out several situations of how data getting leaked is harmful. The article is proposing that is not how it has to be. We could rebuild our internet to…
Author: Thomas Walle; Publisher: Fobers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is particularly insightful as it shows the difference between data privacy and data ethics, even though folks have a tendency to use the terms somewhat interchangeably. The article starts by introducing the idea of data privacy and the data privacy legislation that is being passed. The author then states that data privacy is fairly…
Author: Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2007. The following article provides a similar flow to 5 Dysfunctions of a Team in which a scenario is first used to get important themes in business analytics and ethics across for later discussion. The scenario describes a grocery company that has a massive dataset based on its customers’ cards and what they buy, and they were thinking about selling this…
Author: Thomas Brewster; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how for over a year, SilverPush, an Indian firm, was secretly using inaudible sounds that would play through people’s televisions and get picked up by their cell phones. The imperceivable sound would tune during commercials and get picked up by phones that had SilverPush’s technology embedded in various applications…
Author: Thom Patterson; Publisher: Flying; Publication Year: 2022. The following article looked at the future of flying aircraft. Currently, companies are working on creating self-flying aircraft which could be beneficial for the future. Companies use data in order to train self-flying aircraft to have them take a certain path to reach the given destination. These aircraft get better each time after doing repetitive tasks…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The Economist; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how bankers and insurers are using big data to better target customers and offering more personalized service. However, regulation and ethic code should be applied to them. Also, critics fear too much data-crunching could actually increase financial exclusion. The riskiest customers, and those offline, might be…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Telus International; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about a digital security software company Thales, which says, the majority of consumers say companies are responsible for protecting them from data breaches, with 64% reporting they’re “unlikely to do business with a company where their financial or sensitive data was stolen.” Data stewardship and protection, therefore, is an…