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Amazon Shares Ring Doorbell Footage with Law Enforcement, Sometimes Without the User’s Permission
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Author: Sarah Lynch; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon shared Ring footage with authorities 11 times this year without the user’s knowledge or consent. While their guideline is to notify users, Amazon “reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent…
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New AI Can Guess Whether You’re Gay or Straight from a Photograph
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Author: Sam Levin; Publisher: The Guardian; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how an artificial intelligence, developed by Stanford University, was used to guess people’s sexualities based on photos of their faces. The algorithm was 81% accurate with men and 74% with women. As many LGBTQ people face discrimination and harassment, the algorithm had…
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Ethical Ways to Collect Data Responsibly
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Author: Shabl; Publisher: Stop Having a Boring Life; Publication Year: 2020. The following article details 4 main strategies to collect data in an ethical manner without infringing on people’s privacy or consent. These include transparency (show users up front what data collection methods you use so there is no question of how their data may…
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The Ethical Questions That Haunt Facial-Recognition Research
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Author: Richard Van Noorden; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, science journalist Richard Van Noorden discusses how facial recognition technology is being used for malicious purposes. The Chinese government has abused facial recognition technology to profile Uyghurs via mass surveillance (camera networks) in order to send them to “re-education camps.” The algorithm…
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3 Questions: Designing Software for Research Ethics
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Author: Rachel Gordon; Publisher: MIT News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features the author interviewing Jonathan Zong, a computer scientist Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), also the creator of the app Bartleby. Bartleby is a system for debriefing research participants after being involved in social media research. Using Bartleby, researchers can…
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5 Ethical Questions in Data Science
Author: N/A; Publisher: Future Learn; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how data science has increased rapidly; however, the concerns around the ethical use of it by organizations have risen alongside it. We have seen examples of concerns in different realms, algorithms accepting and denying bank loans, scanning resumes, cookies to monitor behaviors, and…
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Ethics and Data Science
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Author: Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason, DJ Patil; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2018. The following book focuses on implementing ethical guidelines into data scientists’ daily work. The authors provide 5 framing guidelines: consent, clarity, consistency, control, and consequences. It is important that the authors address the whole cycle of data science. They address ethical issues throughout…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science
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Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, including usernames, age, gender, location, the type of relationship (or sex) they are looking for, personality traits, and answers to thousands of profiling questions used by the site.…
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‘‘But the Data is Already Public’’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook
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Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.; Publication Year: 2010. The following paper articulates a set of ethical concerns that must be addressed before embarking on future research in social networking sites, including the nature of consent, properly identifying and respecting expectations of privacy on social network sites, strategies for data anonymization prior to…
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The Ethics of Collecting Consumer Data
Author: N/A; Publisher: MetaRouter; Publication Year: N/A. The following article talks about instances wherein eye-catching articles featuring titles like “28 Ways Your Privacy is Invaded Every Day” or “What Your Fitness App Knows About You” might lead some people to believe that the collection and processing of personal data is downright unethical, even within legal…
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