Category: News Article

The Five Cs: Five Framing Guidelines to Help You Think About Building Data Products

Consent, Consistency, Transparency, Unintended Consequences

Author: DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, Mike Loukides; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2018. The following article provides 5 guidelines to help build data products in a professional way. These include 1). Consent (making sure you have…
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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Police Activity

Author: Dina Bass; Publisher: Bloomberg; Publication Year: 2019. The following article details 26 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers calling for Amazon to stop selling their AI facial recognition software to police departments. The group joined together…
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AI Facial Recognition Systems Work the Worst for Black Women

Algorithmic Injustice, Artificial Intelligence, Criminal Justice System, Facial Recognition Systems, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Training Data

Author: Dianna Mazzone; Publisher: Allure; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how Dr. Joy Buolamwini, executive director of The Algorithmic Justice League, has been working to fight against racial and gender bias in facial…
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The Need for Ethical Data Models for Comprehensive Data Sharing

Depersonalization, Health Data, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPPA, Patient Privacy, Population Medicine

Author: Derek Baird; Publisher: MedCity News; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how the U.S. has lagged behind their developed nation counterparts in regards to patient and consumer privacy protections. The 30 year old…
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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Department of Defense

Author: N/A; Publisher: U.S. Department of Defense; Publication Year: 2020. The following release is from the U.S. Department of Defense detailing the artificial intelligence (AI) Ethics Principles they adopted in 2020. There are 5 principles…
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How Our Data Encodes Systematic Racism

Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Data Usage, Machine Learning, Policing, Racial Bias

Author: Deborah Raji Publisher: MIT Technology Review Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article describes how data nearly always lies, especially within policing systems. White supremacy often appears more violently in the news as gunshots…
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Data Scientists Have Access to Your Sensitive Data. That’s Driving More Schools to Teach Ethics

Bias Elimination, Ethical Practice, Incentive

Author: Dawn Rzeznikeicz; Publisher: Fortune Education; Publication Year: 2022. The following article asks whether data scientists/computer scientists have any obligation to practice data ethics and do they place technological advancements over ethical considerations. Those questions…
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Why Data Ethics Leadership Needs to Become the New Normal in Finance

Artificial Intelligence, Data Automation, Leadership

Author: David Sweenor; Publisher: Global Banking and Finance Review; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how the influx of data in today’s digital world quickly passed the infrastructure necessary to monitor data automation. For…
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How Overturning Roe v Wade has Eroded Privacy of Personal Data

Criminal Prosecution, Data Collection, Femtech, Flo, Meta, Personal Information, Private Data, Reproductive History, Roe v. Wade

Author: David Cox; Publisher: The BMJ; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark case that legally established the right to abortion.…
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