Typically a series of digital audio recordings on a particular topic that are shared and made available through mobile devices or computers.
Author: Tristan Harris, Audrey Tang; Publisher: Your Undivided Attention; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode features Audrey Tang, minister of digital affairs in Taiwan. She is a transgender woman that identifies as “post-gender” and the first non-binary person to hold an executive-level position in Taiwan. In this interview, she discusses how she has helped implement greater data transparency in the government and outlines methods…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The Marketing Analytics Show; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how successful marketing is centered around building trust and relationships with consumers. In a world of cookie pop-ups and privacy invasions, consent and full transparency about data use are more relevant than ever. With the need to comply with legal policies, businesses often take a business-focused legal…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The MapScaping Podcast; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how geospatial data can be powerful for driving business decisions and development but raises questions about location privacy and the ability to identify individuals using real-time data. Privacy issues are a major concern in the realm of data ethics as people are often unaware of how much a corporation or other…
Author: Simson Garfinkel, Kyle Polich; Publisher: Data Skeptic; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode features an interview with Simson Garfinkel who talks about his work with the U.S. Census and how they have changed the ways they are protecting data privacy for the 2020 Census. This new “Differential Privacy” method is more open to the public (with the code being published for anyone to look at) than previous…
Author: Robert Wiblin, Keiran Harris, Chris Olah; Publisher: 80,000 Hours; Publication Year: 2021. The following podcast episode features Chris Olah, a researcher at Google focused on data interpretability, specifically as it relates to neural networks and big machine learning algorithms. The interview provides a deep dive into some of the issues around data interpretability and why the data “black box” issue is a problem worth solving…
Author: Reply All; Publisher: Gimlet; Publication Year: 2018. The following podcast episodes focus on how police departments’ usage of CompStat went awry. CompStat was introduced by Jack Maple, a NYC transit cop, in the early 90s as a way to track crimes, and to see who was committing them. Very quickly, the system was abused by officers who wanted to meet quotas and make their neighborhoods look safe…
Author: Mia Shah-Dand; Publisher: AI Ethics Diaries: Keeping it Real Podcast; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode features Milena Pribic, a senior artificial intelligence (AI) designer at IBM, who gives advice on building ethical AI. Her team digs into team practices and uses an ethical approach to understand the team as she wants her team to understand the context and repercussions of what they are building. Additionally, Pribic…
Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following podcast episode discusses how Tesla had a bug bounty program running in 2019 which led people to try and hack wrecked Tesla cars. The reason was that all the footage, precise geolocation, and other related information was being stored in the car’s computer. The (supposedly ethical) hackers were able to extract personally identifiable…
Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses making sure that minorities are represented in the process of both building and testing especially if the results will be impacting those groups. They also suggested incorporating people from other departments across the business to bring in new and alternative ideas and test your work against…
Author: Liza Gak, Kyle Polich; Publisher: Data Skeptic; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode features Kyle who interviews Liza about her work doing interviews centered on people’s experience with weight loss advertisements. Ethical topics that were raised include how a person’s digital footprint can follow them for years and trigger advertisements that are un-healthful for individuals (i.e. targeting weight loss adds to…