Category: Research Article

Aspects of Data Ethics in a Changing World: Where Are We Now?

Algorithms, Cheap Storage Capacity, Consent, Data Availability, Data Collection, Data Confidentiality, Data Ownership, Personal Data, Purpose of Use

Author: David J. Hand; Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data availability, cheap storage capacity, and powerful tools for extracting information from data have the potential to significantly…
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Ethics of Using and Sharing Clinical Imaging Data for Artificial Intelligence: A Proposed Framework

Clinical Data, Ethical Data Usage, Health Information, Personal Data

Author: David B Larson, David C Magnus, Matthew P Lungren, Nigam H Shah, Curtis P Langlotz; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how when we use data to serve…
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Ethics for Big Data and Analytics

Big Data, Computer Ethics

Author: Daniel E. O’Leary; Publisher: IEEE Xplor; Publication Year: 2016. The following article investigates some issues associated with Big Data and analytics (Big Data) and ethics, examining how Big Data ethics are different than computer…
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Conscientious Classification: A Data Scientist’s Guide to Discrimination-Aware Classification

Discrimination, Discrimination Aware, Machine Learning

Author: d’Alessandro B, O’Neil C, LaGatta T.; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2017. The following article describes discrimination in the context of machine learning. The authors discuss how models can be biased even…
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Emerging Ethical Issues Regarding Digital Health Data. On the World Medical Association Draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks

Biomedical Studies, Consent, Health Biobanks, Health databases, Human Materials, Personally Identifiable Information, WMA, World Medical Association

Author: Christine Aicardi Publisher: National Library of Medicine Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the World Medical Association (WMA) draft on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks. The draft Declaration indeed stresses…
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Digital Ageism: Challenges and Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence for Older Adults

Accessibility, Ageism, Digital Ageism, Discrimination, Fairness, Harms of Allocation, Harms of Representation, Older Adult Populations, Prejudice

Author: Charlene Chu et al.; Publisher: The Gerontologist, Volume 62; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper explores the impacts of ageism and technology. They define “digital ageism” as the repercussions of bias against older individuals…
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An Ethical Framework for Big Data and Smart Cities

Big Data, Ethical Data Usage, Ethical Framework, Public Transportation, Urban Concerns

Author: Victor Chang; Publisher: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 165; Publication Year: 2021. The following paper proposes an ethical framework for the use of big data to address urban concerns, particularly surrounding public transportation…
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The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

Big Data, CARE Framework, Data Governance, Indigenous Peoples

Author: Stephanie Russo Carroll et al.; Publisher: The Data Science Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how Indigenous Peoples have been oppressed in numerous ways, and with the growth of big data and…
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LUCID: Exposing Algorithmic Bias through Inverse Design

Decision-Making, Equality of Outcomes, Equality of Treatment, Locating Unfairness through Canonical Inverse Design, LUCID, Output Metrics, Statistics

Author: Carmen Mazijn, Carina Prunkl, Andres Algaba; Publisher: Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper discusses how artificial intelligence systems can generate, propagate, support, and automate bias in decision-making…
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