Category: 2017

The Ethics of Using Social Media Data in Research: A New Framework

Data Collection, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter

Author: Leanne Townsend, Claire Wallace; Publisher: Emerald Insight; Publication Year: 2017. The following book chapter talks about how over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly. This means…
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Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research

Data Cultures, Political Challenges, Research Agenda, Social Challenges

Author: Kath Albury, Jean Burgess, Ben Light, Kane Race, Owen Wilken Publisher: SAGE Journals Publication Year: 2017 Summary: The following paper discusses how various forms of data are incorporated into, and emerge from, hook-up apps’…
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Data Leakage Prevention: E-Mail Protection via Gateway

Email Protection System, Intellectual Property

Author: Kamaljeet Kaur, Ishu Gupta, Ashutosh Kumar Singh; Publisher: Journal of Physics: Conference Series; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how protecting intellectual property (IP) is a major concern for today’s organizations, because a…
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Would You Trust Your Business with Your Data?

ADMA, Customer Data, Data Collection

Author: Jodie Sangster; Publisher: Smarter Business; Publication Year: 2017. The following interview sheds light on how the laws around data ethics vary by the region. The CEO of ADMA goes on to share how using…
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Ethical by Design: Ethics Best Practices for Natural Language Processing

Ethical by Design, Natural Language Processing Technology, Transparency, User Values, User-Centric, Visibility

Author: Jochen L. Leidner, Vassilis Plachouras; Publisher: ACL Anthology; Publication Year: 2017. The following article features Jochen L. Leidner and Vassilis Plachouras who are Data Scientists at Thomson Reuters, Research & Development located in the…
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Mining Social Media Data: How are Research Sponsors and Researchers Addressing the Ethical Challenges?

Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Data Collection, Data Mining, Personal Data, Social Media, Transparency, Trump

Author: Joanna Taylor, Claudia Pagliari; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2017. The following article explores the ways data is being mined on social media platforms. Data representing people’s behavior, attitudes, feelings, and relationships are being…
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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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Truth in Pictures: What Google Image Searches Tell Us About Inequality at Work

Gender Bias, Google, Racial Bias, Representation, Search Engine

Author: Gretchen Hellman; Publisher: Diversity Employers; Publication Year: 2017. The following article speaks about the bias of search engines. If you were to look for images of a “professor” or “CEO” you would find images…
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Children and the Data Cycle: Rights and Ethics in a Big Data World

Big Data, Child Rights, Children

Author: Gabrielle Berman, Kerry Albright; Publisher: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Office of Research; Publication Year: 2017. The following article calls attention to a group of people that will be some of the most affected…
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