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 different definitions are not as important as the actual questions that data ethics should try to conquer. Some of the main questions that they cipher through regard personal privacy and personally…
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 the most influential forces and the work we do in the coming years. Being well read and up-to-date with data ethics will make your work more beneficial to the people that it serves. Your first job as a data scientist should…
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 British employees working in the field of data analytics, 42% of them said that it is not a priority for them in their careers. This is problematic as experts contend that…
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, the author dives into the idea of sensitive data, which they define as “personally identifiable information.” They explain that it is essential to be careful about how this type of data is…
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 3-month span. The company removed personally identifiable information (PII), but assigned a unique user-ID to the queries. It took researchers at the New York Times mere days to personally identify a…
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 Tesla cars. The reason was that all the footage, precise geolocation, and other related information was being stored in the car’s computer. The (supposedly ethical) hackers were able to extract personally identifiable…
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 privacy of subjects engaging in activities in “public” internet spaces? What are such public spaces? Is there any reasonable expectation of privacy in an era of pervasive and ubiquitous…
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 the importance of respecting these rights, manifested, as it is commonly the case, in the duty to obtain the participant’s consent to have their…
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 data belonging to up to 1.5 million customers. It is worth mentioning that this is the second security issue happened at Flagstar in just over a…
Author: Catherine Cote; Publisher: Harvard Business School Online; Publication Date: 2021. The following article discusses how there is both a legal and ethical obligation when it comes to personally identifiable information (PII). Data privacy is composed of the data collected, the way it is stored, and who has access to it. It is not the same as data security, although the two intertwine to make up data…