Author: N/A; Publisher: Western Governors University; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how companies with higher ethical standards have been shown to perform better than companies who fail to consider the ethics of their practice. “73% of professionals say they take an organization’s values into account.” It is important for employees in deciding where to work if the company has values that align with…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced in Europe, and not in the United States, it could be beneficial to look at how things are done in different countries. In May 2018, a new legislation was passed to ensure greater data privacy in European countries. This quick video…
Author: Tommy Jones; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how with the development of technology, the probability of a company experiencing a data breach becomes higher and higher. There are many data privacy protection technologies emerging but which one should be used and which is the right one is still hard to decide. This article offers 3 major methods of…
Author: Thomas Walle; Publisher: Fobers; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is particularly insightful as it shows the difference between data privacy and data ethics, even though folks have a tendency to use the terms somewhat interchangeably. The article starts by introducing the idea of data privacy and the data privacy legislation that is being passed. The author then states that data privacy is fairly…
Author: Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2007. The following article provides a similar flow to 5 Dysfunctions of a Team in which a scenario is first used to get important themes in business analytics and ethics across for later discussion. The scenario describes a grocery company that has a massive dataset based on its customers’ cards and what they buy, and they were thinking about selling this…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The MapScaping Podcast; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how geospatial data can be powerful for driving business decisions and development but raises questions about location privacy and the ability to identify individuals using real-time data. Privacy issues are a major concern in the realm of data ethics as people are often unaware of how much a corporation or other…
Author: N/A; Publisher: The Global Indigenous Data Alliance; Publication Year: 2022. The following guidelines set out the minimum requirements for Indigenous-designed data approaches and standards, which can be generalized to all approaches and standards to data ethics surrounding marginalized communities. They show the current inadequacy of consent and data privacy protections, and highlight community-controlled…
Author: Stephen Ritter; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article talks about the current period in 2020, when enterprises around the world have unprecedented, nearly unfiltered access to consumers’ personal data, businesses are facing a new kind of question: What responsibility — legal and, just as importantly, ethical — do they have to protect the data they collect and use? What matters is…
Author: Simson Garfinkel, Kyle Polich; Publisher: Data Skeptic; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode features an interview with Simson Garfinkel who talks about his work with the U.S. Census and how they have changed the ways they are protecting data privacy for the 2020 Census. This new “Differential Privacy” method is more open to the public (with the code being published for anyone to look at) than previous…
Author: Sapna Maheshwari; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2017. The following article takes a look at specific ads from Netflix and Spotify that poked fun at unusual behaviors from specific users on their respective platforms. For instance, Spotify pointed out that one user listened to Bieber’s “Sorry” over 40 times on Valentine’s Day, and asked what they had done to warrant such behavior. While funny, the ad…