Tag: Google

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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Privacy Wars Fueled by the GDPR

Ad Personalization, CNIL, Consent, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Transparency

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…
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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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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

Biased Data, Debiasing, Google, Machine Learning, Stereotypes

Author: Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou, et al.; Publisher: Arxiv; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how machine learning applied blindly runs the risk of amplifying biases in data. Word embedding, a popular…
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DAIR Research Institute

AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination, Google

Author: Timnit Gebru; Publisher: DAIR Research Institute; Publication Year: N/A. The following website features an interdisciplinary and globally distributed artificial intelligence (AI) research institute that was founded by Timnit Gebru who was fired by Google…
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Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls

Algorithms, Biased Algorithms, Black Women, Google, Search Engine

Author: Safiya Noble; Publisher: TIME Magazine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article talks about how Google’s search algorithm is biased against the Black woman. It shows and talks about the author’s own identity as a…
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A Good Talk About Good Data

Google, Personal Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Targeted Personal Data

Author: Susanne Schmidt, Sam Gilbert; Publisher: Open Innovations; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, Susanne and Sam wrestle with different definitions of data ethics and the contexts behind these definitions. They decide that the…
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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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An Introduction to Data Ethics

Amazon, FAANG Companies, Google, Meta, Netflix

Author: Shannon Vallor, William J Rewark; Publisher: Santa Clara University; Publication Year: N/A. The following article provides a deep dive into the risks and benefits that data can present. After that, the authors talk about…
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