Tag: Public Data

LexisNexis Sued by Immigration Advocates Over Data Practices

Aggregation, Consumer Privacy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, LexisNexis, Private Data, Protection Rights, Public Data, Surveillance

Author: Sebastian Klovig Skelton; Publisher: Computer Weekly; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how LexisNexis, a U.S. data broker, is being sued for allegedly violated consumer privacy and protection rights in Illinois. Essentially, they…
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Observations Online: Finding the Ethical Boundaries of Facebook Research

Facebook, Informed Consent, Public Data, Textual Data

Author: Roxana Willis; Publisher: SAGE Journals; Publication Year: 2017. The following article examines the difficulties of obtaining informed consent online through a Facebook case study. It is proposed that there are at least 2 ways…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

Big Data, Consent, OkCupid, Public Data

Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, including usernames, age, gender, location, the type of…
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IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In

Artificial Intelligence, Data Scraping, Facial Recognition Systems, Flickr, IBM, Instagram, New York Times, Public Data, Wall Street Journal, Web Scraping

Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how in March of 2019, NBC released a story with the headline “Facial recognition ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos…
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What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?

9th Amendment, Data Storage, Differential Privacy, Facebook, Private Data, Public Data, Social Media

Author: Elisa Celis; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how Facebook is currently the largest social media platform and stores enormous amounts of data. Facebook has data from a user’s…
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Tag: Public Data

LexisNexis Sued by Immigration Advocates Over Data Practices

Observations Online: Finding the Ethical Boundaries of Facebook Research

OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In

What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?