Category: Research Article

What Ethical Approaches are Used by Scientists When Sharing Health Data? An Interview Study

Consequentialism, Data Collection, Data Usage, Deontological Approach, Human Health Research, Procedural Compliance

Author: Jennifer Johansson; Publisher: BMC Medical Ethics; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how as data analytics transforms human health research, Johansson seeks out prominent researchers to gain insights into how they uphold ethical…
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Key Concepts for a Data Science Ethics Curriculum

Aggregation, Anonymity, Conduct, Consent, Curriculum, Data Accuracy, Data Misuse, Data Validity, Group Harm, Model Design, Model Misuse, Personal Harm, Privacy

Author: Jeffrey Saltz, Neil Dewar, Robert Heckman; Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library; Publication Year: 2018. The following article features reviewed published codes of conduct and ethics in data science by the authors…
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Data Science Ethical Considerations: A Systematic Literature Review and Proposed Project Framework

Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Classification, Data Analysis

Author: Jeffrey S. Saltz, Neil Dewar; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how data science, and the related field of big data, is an emerging discipline involving the analysis of data…
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What Does it Mean to ‘Solve’ the Problem of Discrimination in Hiring? Social, Technical and Legal Perspectives from the UK on Automated Hiring Systems

Automated Hiring Systems, Bias Mitigation, Discrimination, Discriminatory Practices, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Hiring, Recruitment

Author: Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, Lilian Edwards; Publisher: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how discriminatory practices in recruitment and hiring are a persistent problem that affects not…
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Wearable Technologies in Collegiate Sports: The Ethics of Collecting Biometric Data from Student-Athletes

Data Analysis, Data Collection, National Collegiate Athletics Association, NCAA, Wearable Devices

Author: Jason F. Arnold, Robert M. Sade; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2017. The following case study describes the development of new technology (wearable devices in this scenario) and how the consequences of…
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Ethical Considerations in Social Media Analytics in the Context of Migration: Lessons Learned from a Horizon 2020 Project

Consent, Migration, Social Media, Vulnerable Populations

Author: Jamie Mahoney; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how online social platforms are used all over the world, which makes them an appealing option for investigating various social phenomena like…
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Bias in Speech Recognition

Racial Bias, Speech Recognition Algorithms, Underrepresented Datasets

Author: Jamie Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how speech recognition algorithms are less effective when it comes to Black people. An algorithm was given a matched subset of identical…
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Using Unethical Data to Build a More Ethical World

Algorithms, Debiasing, Microsoft, Transparency, Twitter Bot, Virtual Assistant

Author: Jaime Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how it is commonly known that there are lots of algorithms that are biased in one way or another. In this paper,…
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fairmodels: a Flexible Tool for Bias Detection, Visualization, and Mitigation in Binary Classification Models

Black Box Algorithms, Explainable Models, Fairness, Machine Learning, Unexplainable Models

Author: Jakub Wisniewski, Przemyslaw Biecek; Publisher: The R Journal; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how as more sophisticated machine learning methods become more ubiquitous, a culture of classifying between “explainable” and “unexplainable” models…
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