Category: Privacy

Protecting Individual-Level Census Data with Differential Privacy

Census Data, Data Granularity, Personal Identifiable Information, PII, Right to Privacy

Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode introduces the idea of personal identifiable information (PII) in reference to census data and weighs the importance of the granularity of data against…
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Ethics of Using and Sharing Clinical Imaging Data for Artificial Intelligence: A Proposed Framework

Clinical Imaging Data, Consent, Data Ownership, Moral Responsibility, Treatment

Author: David B. Larson, David C. Magnus, Matthew P. Lungren, Nigam H. Shah, Curtis P. Langlotz; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses data ownership of clinical imaging data. The…
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AI Ethics Left Hanging When AI Wins Art Contest And Human Artists Are Fuming

AI Usage, Artificial Intelligence, Fairness, Image Generation, Philosophy

Author: Lance Eliot; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how recently in Colorado someone submitted art into a competition and won, the catch being that they used artificial intelligence (AI) to create…
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DynamoFL Aims to Bring Privacy-Preserving AI to More Industries

DynamoFL, Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Malicious Actors, Sensitive Data, Training Data

Author: Kyle Wiggers; Publisher: TechCrunch+; Publication Year: 2022. The following article covers how federated learning allows machine learning (ML) models to be trained on sensitive data without having it housed on multiple different servers and/or…
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China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police

Facial Recognition Systems, Road Patrol Robots, Security Risks

Author: Kristin Houser; Publisher: Futurism; Publication Year: 2019. The following article is about 3 “road patrol robots” that were recently released in China. These robots will be able to identify drivers using facial recognition, take…
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NIH Injects $130M to Provide Quality Tools, Data for AI in Medicine

AI-Ready Datasets, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Research, Biomedical Research, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Systemic Inequity

Author: Kirsten Errick; Publisher: Nextgov; Publication Year: 2022. The following article introduces a $130 million funding effort to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into National Institutes of Health (NIH) biomedical and behavioral research. This is…
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Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them

Algorithms, Deadnaming, Google, LGBTQIA+, Trans People

Author: Khari Johnson; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2022. The following article identifies an ongoing problem in many search based algorithms in regards to using the correct name for a transgender individual. “Deadnaming” is the incorrect…
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What are the Ethical Concerns of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing?

Convenience, Data Collection, Marketing, Personalized Content, Targeted Marketing, Transparency

Author: Kevin Walsh, Paul Roetzer Publisher: HubSpot Publication Year: 2019 Summary: The following video notes that individuals frequently make a trade off between privacy and convenience in order to receive personalized content, which firms can…
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Sexist and Biased? How Credit Firms Make Decisions

Algorithms, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Credit Score, Gender Bias, Goldman Sachs, Historical Data

Author: Kevin Peachey; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how in November 2019, a tech entrepreneur reported that he was approved credit 20 times more on his Apple Card than his…
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