Author: Will Horvath; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how with countries fighting against the growing threat of privacy invasion (and many losing), Europe implemented in 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that provides the ‘most sweeping protection of user privacy rights yet passed in the world.’ France’s CNIL used the GDPR to fine Google for $57 million…
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: 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: 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: 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: Keith D. Foote; Publisher: Dataversity; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how in recent years, internet use has advanced very quickly, and unethical data use by internet businesses is rampant. This has led to the creation of various laws, such as Europe’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, and the Toronto Declaration (a landmark statement on protecting human rights in the age of artificial…
Author: Elisa Bertino, Ahish Kundu, Zehra Sura; Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library; Publication Year: 2019. The following article provides an overview of how data ethics should be incorporated into decentralized networks and blockchain technology. The authors also go through the California Data Privacy Law and General Data Protection Regulation to suggest principles and best data ethics practices that should be taken from these documents…
Author: Daniel Barber; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2022. The following article considers: Why is the United States one of the only countries without a comprehensive data privacy law? Congressional gridlock and the initiative of smaller actors like state legislatures and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are chief reasons. However, a bipartisan bill was proposed in June and is currently undergoing…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Cognizant; Publication Year: N/A. The following glossary entry defines and expands on the concept of data ethics. The entry defines data ethics as a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices—collecting, generating, analyzing and disseminating data, both structured and unstructured—that have the potential to adversely impact people and society. It…