Category: Privacy

How Data Privacy Leader Apple Found Itself in a Data Ethics Catastrophe

Apple, Compliance, Consumer Trust, Goldman Sachs, Personal Data

Author: Daniel Lu, Mike Loukides; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2020. The following article uses a terribly unsuccessful product launch between Apple and Goldman Sachs to establish the difference between compliance and ethics, show that even…
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Moving Forward On Federal Data Privacy Legislation: Why Society Should Be Full Steam Ahead

Accountability, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Roe v. Wade

Author: Daniel Barber; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following article considers: Why is the United States one of the only countries without a comprehensive data privacy law? Congressional gridlock and the initiative of smaller…
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The Great Hack on Netflix: Ethics of Data Use

Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Facebook, Google, Mass Data Exploitation, Netflix, The Great Hack, Whistle-Blowing

Author: Dan Wardrope; Publisher: Flexxable; Publication Year: N/A. The following article reviews people’s reactions to The Great Hack on Netflix. The Great Hack exposes the wrong-doing of mass data exploitation during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
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Seven North Carolina College Campuses have Secretly Tracked Social Media Posts of Students, Protesters

Active-Shooter, Drug Use, Duke University, East Carolina University, Navigate 360, North Carolina A&T University, North Carolina State University, Social Media, Suicide Prevention, University of North Carolina Asheville, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University

Author: Cullen Browder; Publisher: WRAL News; Publication Year: 2022. Following news article describes how 7 North Carolina universities have used Navigate360 to track social media posts related to various campus occurrences. Most notably, UNC-Chapel Hill…
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Ethical Data Collection

Computational Statistics, Consent, Data Mining, Data Privacy, Experimental Statistics, Model Building, Transparency, Unethical Data Collection

Author: Crash Course; Publisher: ClassHook; Publication Year: N/A. The following video provides real-life examples from all different time periods and industries of unethical data collection, which is one of the largest pillars of data ethics.…
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Amazon’s $3.9 billion One Medical Acquisition is Already Raising Data Privacy Concerns

Amazon, Data Use, Healthcare, One Medical, Roe v. Wade

Author: Clint Rainey; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon recently acquired One Medical, a subscription-based healthcare services company. There are concerns over what Amazon will do with the protected…
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Emerging Ethical Issues Regarding Digital Health Data. On the World Medical Association Draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks

Biomedical Studies, Consent, Health Biobanks, Health databases, Human Materials, Personally Identifiable Information, WMA, World Medical Association

Author: Christine Aicardi Publisher: National Library of Medicine Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the World Medical Association (WMA) draft on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks. The draft Declaration indeed stresses…
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Your Big Data Responsibility: The Rise In Data Ethics

Algorithmic Audit, Company Profits, Consent, Customer Data, Design, Evaluation, Informed Consent, risk mitigation, Transparency

Author: Christian Ofori-Boateng; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how, for businesses, data represents customers, and customers drive profit. It’s easy for a business to be distracted by company profits and less…
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Google Fined $57M by Data Protection Watchdog Over GDPR Violations

Ad Personalization, Amazon, Apple, Consent, Data Collection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Lawsuits, Netflix, Spotify

Author: Chris Brook; Publisher: Data Insider; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how while it might be easy to say that just because a law has been passed to regulate data ethics more strictly…
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