Category: Privacy

Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment

Facebook, Moral Responsibility, News Feeds

Author: Michelle N. Meyer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2014. The following article describes how for one week in 2012, Facebook data scientists tested the effect of making News Feeds both more positive and less positive.…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

Big Data, Consent, OkCupid, Public Data

Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, including usernames, age, gender, location, the type of…
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Data in Advertising: What it Means to be an Ethical Marketer

Accuracy, Consumer Privacy, Data Sourcing, Decency, Ethical Data Collection, Fairness, Marketing, Third-Party Data, Transparency

Author: Michael Peralta; Publisher: iab. Tech Lab; Publication Year: 2022. The following article emphasizes the importance of ethical data collection and utilization in marketing, in addition to providing a set of principles to be followed…
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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

AOL, Big Data, Personally Identifiable Information

Author: Michael Barbaro, Tom Zeller Jr.; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2006. The following article discusses how in 2006, AOL purposefully released 20 million anonymized search queries that had been made over a…
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How to Stop the Metaverse from Becoming the Internet’s Bad Sequel

Accessibility, Inclusivity, Metaverse

Author: Micaela Mantegna; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2022. The following talk features Micaela Mantegna who is a video games lawyer who is an advocate for ways to improve the metaverse. She explains in this video…
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Ethics in The Metaverse: Why Data Concerns Needs to be Resolved Now, Not Later

5G Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Biased Data, Data Accountability, Data Compliance, Data Education, Metaverse, Virtual Reality

Author: Merav Ozair; Publisher: Nasdaq; Publication Year: 2022. The following article talks about the importance of data ethics in the metaverse. Although the metaverse is not a concrete reality yet, its underlying technologies (including artificial…
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Data Bias: Why It Matters, and How to Avoid It

Artificial Intelligence, Association Bias, Biased Data, Confirmation Bias, Data Usage, Demographic Bias, Machine Learning, Measurement Bias, Privacy Regulations, Selection Bias

Author: Megan Wells; Publisher: Scuba; Publication Year: N/A. The following article describes how with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the use of data has multiplied over the years. The problem…
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Benefits and Ethical Challenges in Data Science — COMPAS and Smart Meters

COMPAS Program, Data Collection, Discriminatory Practices, Racial Discrimination, Transparency

Author: Maximillian Hofer; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article mentions some ethical challenges or issues with companies having large amounts of data on individuals. While using these large amounts of data can provide…
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AI Trained on 4Chan Becomes ‘Hate Speech Machine’

Artificial Intelligence, Biased Data, Ethical Review Process, Unethical Data Practices

Author: Matthew Gault; Publisher: Vice; Publication Year: 2022. The following article serves as an extreme example of unethical data practices. There are 2 important takeaways from this article. First, artificial intelligence (AI) professionals must be…
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