Tag: Data Collection

Data Brew

Advertising, Algorithms, Biased Data, Credit Score, Data Collection, European Union, Transparency

Author: Denny Lee, Brooke Wenig, Diana Pfeil; Publisher: Data Brew; Publication Year: N/A. The following video series discusses 3 large topics – transparency, privacy, and bias. First was the idea of transparency in data science…
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Responsible Web Scraping: Gathering Data Ethically and Legally

Application Programming Interfaces, Data Collection, Web Scraping

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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How Our Data Encodes Systematic Racism

Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Data Usage, Machine Learning, Policing, Racial Bias

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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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 Use

Author: 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…
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How Overturning Roe v Wade has Eroded Privacy of Personal Data

Criminal Prosecution, Data Collection, Femtech, Flo, Meta, Personal Information, Private Data, Reproductive History, Roe v. Wade

Author: David Cox; Publisher: The BMJ; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark case that legally established the right to abortion.…
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The Ethics of Police Using Technology to Predict Future Crimes

Data Collection, Individual Privacy, Police Activity, Predictive Policing, Racial Bias

Author: Daniel Munro; Publisher: Maclean’s; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how police agencies are using data collection techniques to perform “predictive” policing to determine where crimes are more likely to happen in the…
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The Hidden Ethics of Our Personal Data

Algorithms, Data Collection, Data Trail

Author: Danel Goddemeyer, Dominikus Baur; Publisher: TEDx; Publication Year: N/A. The following TED Talk features a collaborative audience demonstration on collecting data. It makes connections to how easy is it to leave a data trail…
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How Does Queerness Fit Into the US Census

Data Collection, LGBTQIA+, U.S. Census

Author: Dan Bouk; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2022. The following article provides what could be considered a history lesson about the U.S. Census. It touches on topics related to accurate collection of data (including measures…
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Data Ethics

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Dissemination, Data Generation, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Personal Data, Transparency

Author: N/A; Publisher: Cognizant; Publication Year: N/A. The following glossary entry defines and expands on the concept of data ethics. The entry defines data ethics as a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices—collecting, generating,…
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