Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following podcast episode discusses how Tesla had a bug bounty program running in 2019 which led people to try and hack wrecked Tesla cars. The reason was that all the footage, precise geolocation, and other related information was being stored in the car’s computer. The (supposedly ethical) hackers were able to extract personally identifiable…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Invisibly; Publication Year: 2021. The following article touches on the ethics surrounding data privacy concerns. It considers questions such as “what are the ethics surrounding data privacy and how companies manage, handle, store, and use your data;” and “why should you care about your data privacy?” The article also touches on a few top principles in data ethics: 1). Your data…
Author: Frederik Weiergang Larsen, Ninni Gustavsen.
Publisher: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: The following article is primarily regarding data ethics in Denmark, but its principles are generalizable for all data professionals. When the article was written, the Danish Data Ethics Council set 5 leading principles for a digital COVID-19 passport, including: 1). A clearly defined and limited scope, 2). Transparency and voluntary use, 3). Data security…
Author: Elisa Celis; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how Facebook is currently the largest social media platform and stores enormous amounts of data. Facebook has data from a user’s profile, their messages (public and private), who they interact with, what posts they like and news sources they read, and even how long they look at different ads. Although many believe…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Driven Data; Publication Year: N/A. The following resource is Deon which is a command line tool that generates an ethics checklist to help decide if your project is an ethical data science project. The tool allows you to create a custom checklist but also provides a default checklist split into different sections based upon the stage of your project, from data storage to model…
Author: Catherine Cote; Publisher: Harvard Business School Online; Publication Date: 2021. The following article discusses how there is both a legal and ethical obligation when it comes to personally identifiable information (PII). Data privacy is composed of the data collected, the way it is stored, and who has access to it. It is not the same as data security, although the two intertwine to make up data…
Author: Catherine Cole
Publisher: Harvard Business School Online
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: The following article discusses 5 key principles for handling data that ensure ethical collection, storage, and use of data for businesses. The first principle presented by the author is that of ownership. Businesses should be aware of the fact that personal data belongs to the individual. Thus acquiring it without explicit…
Author: Anonymous; Publisher: Pure Storage; Publication Year: N/A. The following article describes how data ethics presents a common and pressing issue in today’s data-driven society, but it extends past data collection. Cyberattacks have become increasingly common in recent years and AI technologies have increased their demand for customer data in order to make impactful decisions…