Tag: Facebook

Planned Parenthood suspends marketing trackers on abortion search pages

Facebook, Google, HIPPA, marketing trackers, Planned Parenthood, TikTok

Click here to access original source Author: Tatum Hunter Publisher: The Washington Post Year: 2022 Summary: This article from The Washington Post details Planned Parenthood’s removal of marketing trackers from its search pages related to…
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics

Consent, Facebook, Litmus Test

Author: Vindu Goel; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2014. The following article focuses on issues prompted by controversial studies by Facebook. The first, in 2014, measured how users’ emotions were impacted by an…
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Locked Out by Big Data: How Big Data, Algorithms and Machine Learning May Undermine Housing Justice

Artificial Intelligence, Discriminatory Practices, Facebook, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination, Redlining

Author: Valerie Schneider; Publisher: Columbia Human Rights Law Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is a very granular deep dive into how artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to discrimination in housing and how this…
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Bias, Racism and Lies: Facing Up to the Unwanted Consequences of AI

AI Development, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Privacy, Facebook, International AI Regulation, Misinformation, Twitter

Author: N/A; Publisher: United Nations News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) development is especially problematic for countries where governments do not have the ability to effectively regulate consumer privacy…
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Ethical Data Analytics — What Every Business Needs to Know

Amazon, Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Customer Data, Facebook, Google, Hiring, Image Recognition, Microsoft, Tay, Twitter

Author: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how if any company uses customer data to make customer-facing decisions, there are ethical issues that need to be considered. Also, it asks…
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A New Study Finds a Potential Risk with Self-Driving Cars: Failure to Detect Dark-Skinned Pedestrians

Algorithms, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Racial Bias, Self-Driving Cars, Uber

Author: Sigal Samuel; Publisher: Vox; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about the self-driving Uber cars. It points to a very important ethical issue in data science i.e. the issue that self-driving Uber cars…
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Case Study: An Ethics Case Study of HIV Prevention Research on Facebook: The Just/Us Study

Facebook, Sexual Education Programming

Author: Sheana S. Bull, PhD, Lindsey T. Breslin, MSSW, Erin E. Wright, MA, Sandra R. Black, DVM, Deborah Levine, MA, John S. Santelli, MD; Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Psychology; Publication Year: 2011. In the following…
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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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WashU Experts: Facebook Controversy Raises Ethical Questions for Corporations

Consumer Data, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Ethical Dilemmas, Facebook, Values-Based Decision-Making

Author: Sara Savat; Publisher: The Source; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses the ethical dilemma that businesses are now faced with regarding the use of consumer data and tools that are built by companies…
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