Tag: Personally Identifiable Information

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 Beginner’s Guide to Data Ethics

Ethical Standards, Harm Avoidance, Personally Identifiable Information

Author: Sophie Lou, Mark Yang; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how data ethics is a growing field and it demands our attention as data scientists because it will be one of…
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Data Ethics? Not My Problem, Say 42% of UK Data Workers

Apple, Data Lifecycle, Goldman Sachs, Moral Responsibility, Personally Identifiable Information

Author: Shubnam Sharma; Publisher: UKTN; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, data ethics deals with the moral obligations of gathering, protecting, and using personally identifiable information, and how it affects individuals. Upon surveying 1,000…
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Introduction to Data Ethics

Data Usage, Personally Identifiable Information, Sensitive Data

Author: N/A; Publisher: Odyssey Learning Project; Publication Year: 2018. The following video does an excellent job of breaking down the extensive and complicated challenge of data ethics into its most basic and essential parts. First,…
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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

AOL, Big Data, Personally Identifiable Information

Author: Michael Barbaro, Tom Zeller Jr.; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2006. The following article discusses how in 2006, AOL purposefully released 20 million anonymized search queries that had been made over a…
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Tesla Cars Store Unencrypted Data

Data Collection, Data Misuse, Data Storage, Hacking, Personally Identifiable Information, PII, Tesla

Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following podcast episode discusses how Tesla had a bug bounty program running in 2019 which led people to try and hack wrecked…
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Internet Research Ethics

Anonymity, Big Data, Consent, Data Confidentiality, Data Tracking, Deception, Ethical Obligations, Minors, Personally Identifiable Information, Surveillance

Author: Elizabeth A. Buchanan; Publisher: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Publication Year: 2021. The following resource discusses how internet research comes with a myriad of ethical questions: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the…
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Emerging Ethical Issues Regarding Digital Health Data. On the World Medical Association Draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks

Biomedical Studies, Consent, Health Biobanks, Health databases, Human Materials, Personally Identifiable Information, WMA, World Medical Association

Author: Christine Aicardi Publisher: National Library of Medicine Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the World Medical Association (WMA) draft on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks. The draft Declaration indeed stresses…
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1.5 Million Customers Impacted by Flagstar Bank Data Breach

Cybercrime, Data Breach, File Transfer Appliance, Flagstar Bank, Personal Data, Personally Identifiable Information, Security Incident

Author: Charlie Osborne; Publisher: ZDNET; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how a data breach occurred at Flagstar Bank between December 3 and December 4, 2021. The security incident caused the exposure of personal…
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