Data Ethics Repository

Tag: Digital Footprint

The Good, The Bad, and The Creepy: Why Data Scientists Need to Understand Ethics

Algorithms, Consent, Digital Footprint, Facebook, Target, Unknowables, Yahoo

Author: Jennifer Priestly; Publisher: SAS Users; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how the data ecosystem is evolving. Data used to be small, structured, and static. Then it became large, unstructured, and in motion.…
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The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads

Digital Footprint, Health Issues, Targeted Advertising, Weight Loss

Author: Liza Gak, Kyle Polich; Publisher: Data Skeptic; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode features Kyle who interviews Liza about her work doing interviews centered on people’s experience with weight loss advertisements. Ethical topics…
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