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: Vincent Manancourt; Publisher: Politico; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how last year, one European Union employee and 2 U.S. employees acted as whistleblowers on Amazon’s mishandling of customer data. For example, the data storage is so convoluted that it would be nearly impossible to enact “the right to be forgotten,” a right that people have the right to have their data completely…
Author: Ton Reijns, Richard Weurding, Jos Schaffers; Publisher: KPMG International; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the European Commission and corresponding European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws have established a framework for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) usage, specifically within the insurance industry. The Dutch have adopted and mandated their own set of standards based off these…
Author: Swish Goswami; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article explores the importance of privacy with regard to consumer data in the modern world, where privacy concerns have been rising. The author mentions how companies have always collected data on their customers, even before computers, but their data collection efforts began exponentially ramping up with the internet’s arrival. For a…
Author: N/A; Publisher: statistics.com; Publication Year: N/A. The following article talks about the legal side of ethical data science. It talks about how the European Union passing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016 has set a stepping stone for ethical data science. However at the same time, the United States is still lacking a very comprehensive federal regulation defining what is artificial…
Author: Soren Juul Jorgensen; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how as individual data becomes more exploited by companies in the name of profit and advancement of humanity, Jorgensen looks at studies that attempt to study the status of ethical frameworks around the world. The closest thing the world has to a global standard is “transparency;” however there was no one issue present…
Author: Sarah Steimer; Publisher: American Marketing Association; Publication Year: 2018. The following article pertains to the ethical use of customers’ information in marketing campaigns. The article starts by explaining that Cambridge Analytica hired an individual to acquire personal information on Facebook users by collecting their information through a seemingly innocent personality quiz. This occurrence led to Cambridge Analytica…
Author: Rik Chomko; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how, from an equity standpoint, artificial intelligence (AI) transparency is vital for preventing bias that has the potential to penalize protected classes or negatively impact a person’s well-being. From a business standpoint, it is becoming just as important. Across the nation and the globe, standards and legislation are…
Author: Maria Korolov; Publisher: TechTarget; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes why there is an increasing demand from consumers to stop having so much of their data collected and used by companies; even employees of these companies are frustrated. The result of companies vacuuming up so much data is for predictions and business analytics, or to sell to others, resulting in…
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. It was established in 2018 and is arguably one of the world’s most strict legislatures about data. The document consists of 11 chapters. It…