Category: Social Justice
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General Data Protection Regulation
Consent, Data Collection, Data Usage, Encryption, European Union, General Data Protection Regulation, Marketing, Proliferation, Right to Be Forgotten, Right to Be InformedAuthor: N/A; Publisher: Intersoft Consulting; Publication Year: 2018. The following document discusses how the General Data Protection Regulation is a fundamental document that imposes regulations in the European Union regarding data collection, usage, and proliferation.…
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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Author: Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell; Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library; Publication Year: 2021. The following article enumerates the costs and risks associated with contemporary large language model development.…
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Why Deep-Learning AIs are so Easy to Fool
Author: Douglas Heaven; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) models, specifical deep neural networks, can be extremely brittle when presented with new cases. There is a…
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AI Facial Recognition Systems Work the Worst for Black Women
Algorithmic Injustice, Artificial Intelligence, Criminal Justice System, Facial Recognition Systems, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Training DataAuthor: Dianna Mazzone; Publisher: Allure; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how Dr. Joy Buolamwini, executive director of The Algorithmic Justice League, has been working to fight against racial and gender bias in facial…
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Responsible Web Scraping: Gathering Data Ethically and Legally
Author: Denis Kryukov; Publisher: Soshace; Publication Year: 2019. The following resource talks about the ethical ways to scrape the web. Although data on the web is public, obtaining it does not always entail completely ethical…
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Author: Dierdre Mask; Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; Publication Year: 2020. The following book does not talk about data ethics per say, it does focus on the ethics on how locations are identified. Having a street…
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How Our Data Encodes Systematic Racism
Author: Deborah Raji Publisher: MIT Technology Review Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article describes how data nearly always lies, especially within policing systems. White supremacy often appears more violently in the news as gunshots…
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Data Scientists Have Access to Your Sensitive Data. That’s Driving More Schools to Teach Ethics
Author: Dawn Rzeznikeicz; Publisher: Fortune Education; Publication Year: 2022. The following article asks whether data scientists/computer scientists have any obligation to practice data ethics and do they place technological advancements over ethical considerations. Those questions…
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Aspects of Data Ethics in a Changing World: Where Are We Now?
Algorithms, Cheap Storage Capacity, Consent, Data Availability, Data Collection, Data Confidentiality, Data Ownership, Personal Data, Purpose of UseAuthor: David J. Hand; Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data availability, cheap storage capacity, and powerful tools for extracting information from data have the potential to significantly…