Category: Code of Ethics
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The Ethics of Police Using Technology to Predict Future Crimes
Author: Daniel Munro; Publisher: Maclean’s; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how police agencies are using data collection techniques to perform “predictive” policing to determine where crimes are more likely to happen in the…
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How Data Privacy Leader Apple Found Itself in a Data Ethics Catastrophe
Author: Daniel Lu, Mike Loukides; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2020. The following article uses a terribly unsuccessful product launch between Apple and Goldman Sachs to establish the difference between compliance and ethics, show that even…
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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…
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The Great Hack on Netflix: Ethics of Data Use
Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Facebook, Google, Mass Data Exploitation, Netflix, The Great Hack, Whistle-BlowingAuthor: Dan Wardrope; Publisher: Flexxable; Publication Year: N/A. The following article reviews people’s reactions to The Great Hack on Netflix. The Great Hack exposes the wrong-doing of mass data exploitation during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Cyber Ethics
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…
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Conscientious Classification: A Data Scientist’s Guide to Discrimination-Aware Classification
Author: d’Alessandro B, O’Neil C, LaGatta T.; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2017. The following article describes discrimination in the context of machine learning. The authors discuss how models can be biased even…
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Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice
Author: The Committee on Professional Ethics of the American Statistical Association; Publisher: The American Statistical Association; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses the guidelines that statisticians should follow to ensure ethical decision making and…