Category: 2015

Meet The ‘Ultrasonic’ Tracking Company Privacy Activists Are Terrified Of

Cross-Platform Tracking, India, SilverPush

Author: Thomas Brewster; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how for over a year, SilverPush, an Indian firm, was secretly using inaudible sounds that would play through people’s televisions and get picked…
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It’s Good to Share: Why Environmental Scientists’ Ethics Are Out of Date

Data Sharing, Environmental Science, Policymakers, Round-Table Model, Transparency

Author: Patricia A. Soranno, Kendra S. Cheruvelil, Kevin C. Elliott, Georgina M. Montgomery; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how as data-sharing policies and ethics have become more prevalent…
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Big Data Ethics: Weaving ethics into the fabric of Big Data

Advertisements, Big Data, Data Accessibility, Data Processing

Author: Sahana Rajan; Publisher: Suyati; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how as big data becomes more common, what are the boundaries of data ethics? Intricate data processing can open up the possibility of…
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The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars

Automated Systems, Decision-Making, Self-Driving Cars

Author: Patrick Lin; Publisher: TED-Ed; Publication Year: 2015. The following video breaks down a real-life ethical decision that has to be made when utilizing automated systems, particularly self-driving cars. The author presents a scenario in…
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It’s Good to Share: Why Environmental Scientists’ Ethics Are Out of Date

Climate Change, Data Sharing, Environmental Science, Undersharing Data

Author: Patricia A. Soranno, Kendra S. Cheruvelil, Kevin C. Elliott, Georgina M. Montgomery; Publisher: BioScience; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how many times we are concerned with the ethics of oversharing data, but…
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The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts

Big Data, Big Data Gap, Epistemology, Ethical Assessment, Governance Framework

Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2015. The following paper provides an ethical assessment of emerging Big Data practices and a framework for governance. The authors discuss 2…
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Justice for “Data Janitors”

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Data Cleaning, Displaced Work, Machine Learning, Mechanical Turk, Training Data

Author: Lilly Irani; Publisher: Public Books; Publication Year: 2015. The following article describes how when things in the technology world become automated, the work that is being “replaced” is not actually replaced, but displaced. For…
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Data Science for Social Good with Datakind’s Jake Porway

Data Science, Datakind, Social Good

Author: Jake Porway; Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Publication Year: 2015. The following video discusses how data for good is becoming very popular, but many people are not thinking deeply about ethics as they do it, and…
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St. Louis Cardinals Hacking Allegations Raise Ethical, Encryption Concerns, Stanford Law Expert Says

FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Major League Baseball, Sports Industry, St. Louis Cardinals

Author: Clifton B. Parker; Publisher: Stanford News; Publication Year: 2015. The following article highlights the benefits and risks of data analytics in sports. In 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an investigation searching…
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