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Ethics for Big Data and Analytics
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 ethics and other more general ethical frameworks. In so doing, the author briefly investigates some of the previous research in…
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What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Cyber Ethics
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Author: Dan Lohrmann; Publisher: Security InfoWatch; Publication Year: 2016. The following article attempts at relating Star Wars to cyber ethics. It relates the “Dark Side” to data breaches. It first states that sometimes, we are the enemy, and that not all cyber attacks come from foreign hackers. The author says to be aware that just…
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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
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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 the importance of respecting these rights, manifested, as it is commonly the case, in the duty to obtain the participant’s…
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Weapons of Math Destruction
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Author: Cathy O’Neil; Publisher: Crown; Publication Year: 2016. The following book discusses “weapons of math destruction”: algorithms that try to quantify subjective qualities or judgment metrics. For example, an algorithm that tries to quantify “creditworthiness” is meant to streamline and increase efficiency. However the designs of this system and many others like it end up…
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The Ethical Data Scientist
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Author: Cathy O’Neil; Publisher: Slate; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses when deciding which variables to include in a model, some factors (race, etc.) can be easily excluded to ensure that racial bias in data as a result of systemic racism does not play a role in how the model makes predictions. However, there…
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17 Tech Companies That Lobby the Government Most
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Author: N/A; Publisher: Business Insider India; Publication Year: 2016. The following article lists down the total amount of money being spent by big tech corporations such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and others. It shows they spend from $430,000 to about 1.1 million dollars every year in order to influence IT rules. All of this is…
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The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts
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Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data; Publication Year: 2016. The following article pays particular attention to biomedical Big Data due to the inherent sensitivity of medical information. 5 key areas of concern are identified: 1). informed consent; 2). privacy (including anonymization and data protection); 3). ownership; 4). epistemology…
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