A short to long form of writing that informs and educates audience members on current events.
Author: AFP; Publisher: The Economic Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article details how on November 3, 2021, a hacker snatched approximately 5 million email addresses and 2 million users’ names with a technique called “social engineering” from Robinhood. Luckily, no Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, or debit card numbers were exposed.
Author: Adi Robertson; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against a company called Kochava that was selling data, which in some cases included both personal details and location data that put individuals at risk. This was particularly sensitive in light of the recent overturning of…
Author: Adam Zewe; Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Publication Year: 2022. The following article explains how MIT has begun offering an Experiential Ethics summer course in which students work through real-world ethical dilemmas while often interning in the same fields that they’re studying. The 3-year-old course focuses on ethical concepts like the intercepts of technology with justice and…
Author: Aaron Klein; Publisher: The Brookings Institution; Publication Year: 2020. The following paper goes in depth regarding why establishing and maintaining proper data governance programs and ethical data frameworks are so important to financial institutions. As AI technologies have grown to more prominence, so have issues that have arisen with them. There have already been…