Tag: Big Data

Convention 108 and Protocol

Big Data, Data Protection

Author: N/A; Publisher: Council of Europe; Publication Year: N/A. The following document was one of the first initiatives in data protection. It was open for signing in January 1981. The most crucial idea of the…
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An Ethical Framework for Big Data and Smart Cities

Big Data, Ethical Data Usage, Ethical Framework, Public Transportation, Urban Concerns

Author: Victor Chang; Publisher: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 165; Publication Year: 2021. The following paper proposes an ethical framework for the use of big data to address urban concerns, particularly surrounding public transportation…
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The Era of Blind Faith in Big Data Must End

Algorithmic Audit, Algorithmic Models, Algorithms, Big Data, Blind Trust, Data Collection, Unconscious Bias

Author: Cathy O’Neil; Publisher: TED Talks; Publication Year: 2017. The following video highlights the dangers of blind trust in algorithmic models. O’Neil suggests that algorithms are much less scientific and objectively truthful than commonly perceived.…
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The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

Big Data, CARE Framework, Data Governance, Indigenous Peoples

Author: Stephanie Russo Carroll et al.; Publisher: The Data Science Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how Indigenous Peoples have been oppressed in numerous ways, and with the growth of big data and…
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How Community Members in Ramsey County Stopped a Big-Data Plan from Flagging Students as At-Risk

Big Data, Child Welfare, Early Risk Factors, Juvenile Justice System, National Council on Crime and Deliquency

Author: Carrie Pomeroy; Publisher: Twin Cities Daily Planet; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how in Minnesota, community members disapproved of an initiative to share data relating to child welfare, education, the juvenile justice…
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Big Data in Food Safety – A Review

Big Data, Blockchain Technology, Food Safety, Labeling, Satellite Imagery, Social Media

Author: Cangyu Jin, Yamine Bouzembrak, Jiehong Zhou, Qiao Liang, Leonieke M.van den Bulk, Anand Gavai, Ningjing Liu, Lukas J.van den Heuvel, Wouter Hoenderdaal, Hans J.P. Marvin; Publisher: Current Opinion in Food Science; Publication Year: 2020.…
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The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts

Big Data, Big Data Divides, Biomedical Studies, Consent, Epistemology, Objectivity, Ownership

Author: Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data; Publication Year: 2016. The following article pays particular attention to biomedical Big Data due to the inherent sensitivity of medical information. 5…
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The Big Data Agenda

Big Data, Biomedical Studies, Data Collection

Author: Annika Richterich; Publisher: University of Westminster Press, Google Books; Publication Year: 2018. The following article highlights that gathering and analyzing big data raises many ethical issues. She gives a lot of background information on…
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Big Data Ethics

Algorithms, Big Data, Deindividualized, Group Identification, Individual Responsibility, Personally Identifiable Information, Power Distribution, Target Groups, Targeted Marketing, Transparency

Author: Andrej Zwitter; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2014. The following article states two main reasons why ethical practices involving Big Data are increasingly becoming more important. Big Data is much more organic; since it…
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