Category: Privacy

Meet the Activists Perfecting the Craft of Anti-Surveillance

Artificial Intelligence, Black Lives Matter, Body Cameras, Encryption, Facial Recognition Systems, George Floyd, Government Security, Government Surveillance, License Plate Readers, Predictive AI, Stingray Devices, Surveillance State

Author: Hannah Murphy; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how activists are fighting against the collusion between big tech companies and government security apparatus. Public anxiety has grown over state surveillance…
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Data Science Ethics

Algorithmic Fairness, Anonymity, Consent, Data Ownership, Data Validity, University of Michigan

Author: H.V. Jagadish; Publisher: University of Michigan, Coursera; Publication Year: N/A. The following course from the University of Michigan on Coursera. It is primarily an introductory course that provides the history of the concept of…
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Player Tracking Coming to the NHL? It’s Complicated

Data Privacy, National Hockey League, Rugby, Wearable Data Device

Author: Greg Wyshynski; Publisher: ESPN; Publication Year: 2018. In the following article, before diving into the ethical concerns of data usage in the NHL, the author turns to rugby. The kicker of a recent rugby…
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The Importance of Data Ethics | Google Data Analytics Certificate

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Google

Author: Google Career Certificates; Publisher: YouTube; Publication Year: 2021. The following video features Alex, a research scientist at Google, who talks about how their team works through challenges of how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with…
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FAIR Principles

Accessibility, Fairness, Findability, GO FAIR, Implementation Networks, Interoperability, Reusability

Author: N/A; Publisher: GO FAIR; Publication Year: 2016. The following article focusses on GO FAIR, a stakeholder-driven and self-governed initiative that aims to implement the FAIR data principles. They use Implementation Networks to define and…
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Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Facebook, Instagram, Teenage Girls

Author: Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz, Deepa Seetharaman; Publisher: The Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how internal reports at Facebook found that Instagram presented real harm to teenage girls. About 1/3…
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Why Marketers Must Embrace Ethical Data Use

Advertising, Customer Trust, Data Confidentiality, Marketing, Personal Data, Transparency

Author: Gabrielle Robitaille; Publisher: World Federation of Advertisers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on how gaining consumer trust is key for business success, and the adoption of data ethics in marketing and advertising…
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Big Data, Ethics and Religion: New Questions from a New Science

Big Data, Data Collection, Data Confidentiality, Data Security, Personal Data, Theology

Author: Michael Fuller; Publisher: ProQuest; Publication Year: 2017. The following article addresses how the hopes, fears, and ethical concerns relating to technology are as old as technology itself. When considering the increase in the power…
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Data Privacy and Consent

Consent, Data Collection, Entropy, Individual Privacy, Privacy Protection

Author: Fred Cate; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2020. The following video features a talk from a TED conference based around entropy, and this speaker spoke about how data ethics is an area of entropy…
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