6 Ethical Issues in Healthcare in 2020

Author: N/A; Publisher: AdventHealth University; Publication Year: 2020. The following article highlights 6 ethical issues in healthcare in 2020 (and beyond). The ethical issues are 1). taking advantage of Big Data without dehumanizing patients; 2). safeguarding patient privacy when using population health data; 3). ensuring equal access to customized medicine; 4). reconciling patient…

FTC Sues Data Broker for Letting People Track Health Clinic Visitors

Author: Adi Robertson; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against a company called Kochava that was selling data, which in some cases included both personal details and location data that put individuals at risk. This was particularly sensitive in light of the recent overturning of…

5 Things Lawyers Need to Know About AI

Author: Aaina Agarwal, Patrick Hall, Sara Jordan, Brenda Leong; Publisher: Future of Privacy Forum; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on looking at the ethics of AI use from a lawyer’s perspective, providing some of the potential legal issues that could arise with AI misuse. The article brings up 5 different aspects of AI to be aware of. Firstly, machine learning systems are probabilistic. No machine learning model can make…

Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent

Author: A. Michael Froomkin; Publisher: Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Yale Journal of Law & Technology; Publication Year: 2019. The following article focuses on how a regulation was changed in 2019 to revise what it means for the requirement of informed consent. Now that companies collect data virtually everywhere and data scientists are trying to find correlations in virtually anything i.e. Machine Learning algorithms clustering people in an uneasily…

AI in Banking: Survey Reveals Factors for Success | SAS

Author: N/A; Publisher: SAS Insights; Publication Year: N/A. The following post is about where AI is being implemented in banking, what it is being used for, and who is in charge of keeping an eye on the results. The post utilizes bar charts to illustrate the information. The post talks about how banks are currently in the experimental phases of AI implementation and how policies and…

What Is Data Ethics and How Can Storage Improve Ethics Best Practices?

Author: N/A; Publisher: Pure Storage; Publication Year: N/A. The following article introduces the topic of data ethics by stating that it answers the questions “how can our organization collect, store, and use data ethically?” and also “what consumer rights must we protect?” The article emphasizes the importance of knowing the risks associated with data ethics and that appropriate…