Category: 2020

Handle with Care: Lessons for Data Science from Black Female Scholars

Algorithms, Black Women, Data Collection, Defaults, Discrimination, Racism, Stereotypes

Author: Inioluwa Deborah Raji; Publisher: Patterns; Publication Year: 2020. The following article begins by confronting the idea that data science aims to reduce people to one dimensional ideas or stereotypes. When individuals or organizations attempt…
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Privacy & Security Perspectives: Interoperability, Prospects for HIPAA Refresh, More

Perspective, Sensitive Data, Technology Development

Author: Bill Siwicki; Publisher: Healthcare IT News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article features a conversation highlighting the importance of keeping multiple perspectives in mind for any kind of technology development that requires sharing of…
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Data Security for Owners and Contractors: Protect Construction Investments From Catastrophic Loss

Construction, Data Privacy, Late Adopters, Material Safety

Author: Helen Melchiondo; Publisher: JDSupra; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how in late adoption agencies, specifically construction, off the shelf cloud providers have been a boon to scalability and demand surge concerns. However,…
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We Don’t Have Enough Women in Clinical Trials — Why That’s a Problem

Clinical Trials, Gender Gap, Training Data

Author: Elizabeth Pratt; Publisher: Healthline; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how data scientists need to be cautious about applying results across all demographics if all demographics were not well represented in the data…
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Digital Epidemiology: The Ethics of Using Health Data in a Pandemic

Contract Tracing, Epidemiology, Machine Learning

Author: N/A Publisher: Health Europa Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article brings attention to ethical concerns present in our digital world and epidemiology. It discusses the ethics of contract tracing. There has to be…
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The Ethical Limits of Blockchain-Enabled Markets for Private IoT Data

Anonymity, Blockchain Technology, Private Data, Security

Author: Georgy Ishmaev; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the growth of the blockchain technology and its potential impact of security and privacy of technology users. It is highlighted that the…
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Why Marketers Must Embrace Ethical Data Use

Advertising, Customer Trust, Data Confidentiality, Marketing, Personal Data, Transparency

Author: Gabrielle Robitaille; Publisher: World Federation of Advertisers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on how gaining consumer trust is key for business success, and the adoption of data ethics in marketing and advertising…
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Data Privacy and Consent

Consent, Data Collection, Entropy, Individual Privacy, Privacy Protection

Author: Fred Cate; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2020. The following video features a talk from a TED conference based around entropy, and this speaker spoke about how data ethics is an area of entropy…
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Working Through Ethics Review of Big Data Research Projects: An Investigation into the Experiences of Swiss and American Researchers

Ethics Committee, Human Subjects, Institutional Review Boards, Social Media, Switzerland, United States

Author: Maddalena Favaretto, Eva De Clercq, Matthias Briel, Bernice Simone Elger; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the differences between Swiss and U.S. in terms of ethics committees and…
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