Resources that discuss issues related to data collection, utilization and distribution as pertaining to maintaining a person’s private information.
Author: Tristan Harris, Audrey Tang; Publisher: Your Undivided Attention; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode features Audrey Tang, minister of digital affairs in Taiwan. She is a transgender woman that identifies as “post-gender” and the first non-binary person to hold an executive-level position in Taiwan. In this interview, she discusses how she has helped implement greater data transparency in the government and outlines methods…
Author: Tommy Jones; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how with the development of technology, the probability of a company experiencing a data breach becomes higher and higher. There are many data privacy protection technologies emerging but which one should be used and which is the right one is still hard to decide. This article offers 3 major methods of…
Author: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how if any company uses customer data to make customer-facing decisions, there are ethical issues that need to be considered. Also, it asks us to consider “When ‘Know Your Customer’ goes too far;” and the issues related to Facebook/Cambridge Analytica political influence scandal from 2016 provide a clear…
Author: Tom Davenport; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how gaining a competitive edge has been a long-time goal for teams within the sporting industry. The most well-known and recent example of a team crossing the ethical line into the territory of cheating is the Houston Astros in 2017. While the ethical issue was violating privacy, and it was only the opposing team’s…
Author: Tim Sandle; Publisher: Digital Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the need for change in healthcare data. Ethics should be more of a priority for healthcare organizations. The author argues that privacy is not currently being taken seriously enough, and there should be more regulations that healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations must follow. Many countries have laws…
Author: Tim Dutton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article explains the current political landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). It goes into the competitive nature of technology around the world and how countries are in competition to see who can implement better AI solutions. “AI policy is about maximizing AI’s many benefits for our economy and societies, while minimizing its…
Author: Thorin Klosowski; Publisher: The New York Times, Wirecutter; Publication Year: 2021. The following article points out the massive amount of data that is collected on us daily by all sorts of different companies. These companies sometimes sell this data, and other times the data gets hacked. It pointed out several situations of how data getting leaked is harmful. The article is proposing that is not how it has to be. We could rebuild our internet to…
Author: Thomas J., McNabb S.; Publisher: Global Health Data Methods; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how misuse in health range from a physician not informing their patient about the risks of a procedure they will perform to the manager of a public health data system not protecting the confidentiality of patient records. Public health systems must protect the confidentiality of sensitive information while ensuring practitioners…
Author: Thomas Brewster; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following video goes over the implementation of facial recognition technology in public places, specifically casinos. Both the creators of the facial recognition technology and another person offering data ethics concerns are featured in this video, so there are both sides to the argument about privacy concerns using data ethics. This facial…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The MapScaping Podcast; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how geospatial data can be powerful for driving business decisions and development but raises questions about location privacy and the ability to identify individuals using real-time data. Privacy issues are a major concern in the realm of data ethics as people are often unaware of how much a corporation or other…