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LexisNexis Sued by Immigration Advocates Over Data Practices
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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 are aggregating people’s personal information onto their platform where access can be purchased by third parties. This information is both…
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Observations Online: Finding the Ethical Boundaries of Facebook Research
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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 informed consent could be waived in research: first, if the data are public, and second, if the data are textual…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science
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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 relationship (or sex) they are looking for, personality traits, and answers to thousands of profiling questions used by the site.…
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IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In
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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 scraped without consent.” The story expands on a data set released by IBM of one million photos of faces to…
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What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?
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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 profile, their messages (public and private), who they interact with, what posts they like and news sources they read, and…
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