Tag: Data Collection

Big Data, Ethics and Children

Accountability, Child Rights, Children, Data Collection, Data Literacy, Transparency

Author: Gabrielle Berman; Publisher: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Publication Year: 2017. In the following article, the author begins with the statistic that an estimated 1 out of 3 internet users are children. Children now…
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Big Data, Ethics and Religion: New Questions from a New Science

Big Data, Data Collection, Data Confidentiality, Data Security, Personal Data, Theology

Author: Michael Fuller; Publisher: ProQuest; Publication Year: 2017. The following article addresses how the hopes, fears, and ethical concerns relating to technology are as old as technology itself. When considering the increase in the power…
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Data Privacy and Consent

Consent, Data Collection, Entropy, Individual Privacy, Privacy Protection

Author: Fred Cate; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2020. The following video features a talk from a TED conference based around entropy, and this speaker spoke about how data ethics is an area of entropy…
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Five Data Ethics Considerations for 2020

Algorithms, Curation, Data Collection, Dissemination, Processing, Transparency

Author: N/A; Publisher: e Week; Publication Year: 2020. The following article outlines 5 data ethics considerations as the collection of data becomes more popular in the coming years. The author suggests that data scientists consider…
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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 Informed

Author: 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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AI & Bioterrorism: An Overview of the Ethical Risks Involved

Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Biological Data, Bioterrorism, Data Collection, Data Mining

Author: Tristesse Erasmus; Publisher: Stellenbosch University; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is many times known as a dual-sided sword, sometimes being beneficial, and other times being catastrophic. As the…
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How an Algorithm Meant to Help Parents Could Target Poor Families Instead

Algorithm, Child Welfare, Data Collection, Pennsylvania, Policing, Predictions, Universally Available Data

Author: Elizabeth Brico; Publisher: Talk Poverty; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses an algorithm that is being implemented in Allegheny County, PA that is intended to assist its child welfare programs by predicting which…
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Ethical Challenges Posed by Big Data

Autonomy, Big Data, Consent, Data Collection, Equity, Privacy Protection, Training Data

Author: Edmund G. Howe, Falicia Elenberg; Publisher: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience; Publication Year: 2020. The following paper discusses how Big Data is becoming a larger field within the world of data science as more and…
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Ethics of Collecting and Using Healthcare Data

Consent, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Ethical Data Usage, Institutional Review Boards, Patient Information, Review Committees

Author: Derick Wade; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2007. The following article discusses how ethical review committees are helpful, but the ultimate responsibility of ethical data use in healthcare falls to those organizations…
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