Resources that discuss concerns or passions regularly encountered by a large group of people and trying to understand how to navigate it better.
Author: Travis Greene; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, Travis Greene discusses the idea of data scientists becoming activist data scientists. Loosely basing the idea on a concept called “activist engineering” which was developed in 2015, Greene describes an activist data scientist as someone who realizes the social and political community they live in, and who realizes that…
Author: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article gives a bit of background on the current issues with using data for malintent. He then outlines some of the necessities of working with data, and what companies should require of those who work with sensitive data. The first point is to create experts in ethical thinking. They do this by training data experts on data security and the…
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 up by their cell phones. The imperceivable sound would tune during commercials and get picked up by phones that had SilverPush’s technology embedded in various applications…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The Global Indigenous Data Alliance; Publication Year: 2022. The following guidelines set out the minimum requirements for Indigenous-designed data approaches and standards, which can be generalized to all approaches and standards to data ethics surrounding marginalized communities. They show the current inadequacy of consent and data privacy protections, and highlight community-controlled…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how biases and systems that routinely exclude and oppress have spread from the physical world into the technological world. TAPP Project, from the Harvard Kennedy School, works to ensure that emerging technologies are developed and managed in ways that serve the overall public good. It has 3 main principles:…
Author: Susanne Schmidt, Sam Gilbert; Publisher: Open Innovations; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, Susanne and Sam wrestle with different definitions of data ethics and the contexts behind these definitions. They decide that the different definitions are not as important as the actual questions that data ethics should try to conquer. Some of the main questions that they cipher through regard personal privacy and personally…
Author: Steven Tiell; Publisher: Accenture; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how In 2021, data ethics will be the tool financial services firms choose to manage digital risks in automation and cybersecurity. Practicing data ethics helps organizations to identify these risks early in the development of new products and services, and to intervene with tools, assessments, and governance processes…
Author: Steven M. Mintz; Publisher: Strategic Finance; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how data ethics is vital for young professionals to learn in a new automated, decision-making world in finance. For this reason, it is important to add data ethics into the accounting curriculum to stay ahead of the ethical issues. As many of the other resources have stated artificial intelligence (AI) use has many benefits but…
Author: Stefaan Verhulst; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2017. The following talk opens with a story on how big data collected by corporations have been essential in disaster relief, and how this could be just the beginning. He ultimately argues that we need a new kind of data responsibility, advocating for 3 pillars in this new paradigm: a duty to share, a duty to protect, and a responsiveness to actually act upon the…
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 in the sciences, the field of environmental sciences has not really caught up. This article further describes how in order for environmental science to be a more inclusive field, the scientists need to make the datasets that are serving as a basis for their…