Category: Communities of Practice
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LexisNexis Sued by Immigration Advocates Over Data Practices
Aggregation, Consumer Privacy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, LexisNexis, Private Data, Protection Rights, Public Data, SurveillanceAuthor: Sebastian Klovig Skelton; Publisher: Computer Weekly; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how LexisNexis, a U.S. data broker, is being sued for allegedly violated consumer privacy and protection rights in Illinois. Essentially, they…
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Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You
Author: Sarah Zhang; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how ethical boundaries for data researchers are still developing as data research is still an emerging field. Under the Common Rule in the…
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The Murky Ethics of Data Gathering in a Post-Cambridge Analytica World
Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Customer Information, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Marketing, Personal InformationAuthor: Sarah Steimer; Publisher: American Marketing Association; Publication Year: 2018. The following article pertains to the ethical use of customers’ information in marketing campaigns. The article starts by explaining that Cambridge Analytica hired an individual…
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Why “Data for Good” Lacks Precision
Author: Sara Hooker; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data for good has become an arbitrary goal and means little with regards to the tools being used, the goals of the…
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Scientific Research and Big Data
Author: N/A; Publisher: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Publication Year: 2020. The following resource is primarily focused on the way that big data and machine learning algorithms has changed the process of knowledge generation. At the…
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The Ethics of Psychological Artificial Intelligence: Clinical Considerations
Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Psychology, Competence, Cultural Diversity, Cybersecurity, Reliability, TransparencyAuthor: Russell Fulmer, Tonya Davis, Cori Costello, Angela Joerin; Publisher: Wiley Online Library; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, Russell Fulmer, Tonya Davis, Cori Costello, and Angela Joerin, researchers at Northwestern University, discuss how…
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Why Does Technology Need Ethics? | CEO of Parity, Rumman Chowdhury
Author: Rumman Chowdhury; Publisher: Parity; Publication Year: 2021. The following talk addresses the question: Why does technology need ethics? Dr. Chowdhury describes 2 kinds of bias, a quantitative one and a qualitative one, specifically data…
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Chris Olah on What the Hell is Going on Inside Neural Networks
Author: Robert Wiblin, Keiran Harris, Chris Olah; Publisher: 80,000 Hours; Publication Year: 2021. The following podcast episode features Chris Olah, a researcher at Google focused on data interpretability, specifically as it relates to neural networks…