This document provides an overview of data ethics and privacy issues. It defines ethics, morals, and data ethics. It discusses how technology has created new activities and behaviors that necessitated the concept of data ethics. It outlines categories of ethical issues like privacy, accuracy, and property issues. It also defines concepts like cyberethics, computer ethics, internet ethics, and information ethics. Finally, it discusses data privacy and techniques like data gathering that can threaten privacy.
This document provides an overview of data ethics and privacy issues. It defines ethics, morals, and data ethics. It discusses how technology has created new activities and behaviors that necessitated the concept of data ethics. It outlines categories of ethical issues like privacy, accuracy, and property issues. It also defines concepts like cyberethics, computer ethics, internet ethics, and information ethics. Finally, it discusses data privacy and techniques like data gathering that can threaten privacy.
This document provides an overview of data ethics and privacy issues. It defines ethics, morals, and data ethics. It discusses how technology has created new activities and behaviors that necessitated the concept of data ethics. It outlines categories of ethical issues like privacy, accuracy, and property issues. It also defines concepts like cyberethics, computer ethics, internet ethics, and information ethics. Finally, it discusses data privacy and techniques like data gathering that can threaten privacy.
Introduction • Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are different: • Ethics → rules provided by an external source, Ex. codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions • Morals → an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong
Introduction Data ethics → is a new branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems related to • data (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing, and use), • Algorithms (including artificial intelligence, artificial agents, machine learning, and robots) and • Corresponding practices (including responsible innovation, programming, hacking, and professional codes), too formulate and support morally good solutions (e.g. right conducts or right values) – Prof. Luciano Floridi
Story Behind Data Ethics • Technology has certainly created new activities and behaviors, and this is the reason the concept of data ethics exists and is becoming more and more important today. • As technology evolves, new ways of storing and processing data are invented and the quantity of information that can be shared and stored is greater than ever.
Story Behind Data Ethics 1970s… Computers gain more and more power and can contain more data 1980s… Data was adapted to the model-based algorithms (classification and regression methods) → Algorithms identify patterns that give significance to online traffic 1990s… Cybercrime, modems, and online forums → The world is interconnected and we begin to communicate across borders, leaving data traces everywhere, but still largely unaware of the amount of data we leave behind
Story Behind Data Ethics 2000s… Social media and piracy → New software and technology creates a whole new world to navigate and interact with, but there are a lot of unknowns, including how much personal data social media will collect, store and share 2010s… Geolocation and increased awareness
Why do Data Scientists need to understand Data Ethics? • Data Scientists often deal with big sets of data that are driven by people, so it is their duty to keep private data secured and use it responsibly. • To better incorporate human values like justice and equity in data-driven technologies, we need to also understand the underlying human and social structures
Categories of Ethical issues • Privacy issues involve collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals • Accuracy issues involve the authenticity, fidelity, and accuracy of the information that is collected and processed • Property issues involve the ownership and value of information • Accessibility issues revolve around who should have access to information and whether they should have to pay for this access
Cyberethics • Cyberethics → the study of moral, legal, and social issues involving cybertechnology • Cybertechnology → a wide range of computing and communications devices from standalone computers, to "connected" or networked computing and communications technologies, to the Internet itself. • Cybertechnologies include: • digital electronic devices; • networked computers (including servers, desktops, laptops, etc.); • stand-alone computers.
Cyberethics • Computer ethics → the study of ethical issues limited either to computing machines or computing professionals. Computer Ethics • Internet ethics → limited only to ethical issues affecting (only) networked Information Internet Ethics Ethics computers and devices • Information ethics → the study of ethical issues limited to the creation, Cyberethics generation, and the use of information
Data privacy • Data privacy (information privacy) → the aspect of information technology (IT) that deals with the ability an organization or individual has to determine what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties • Data privacy → responsibly collecting, using and storing data about people, in line with the expectations of those people, your customers, regulations and laws
Data privacy • Privacy concerns now affect many aspects of our day-to-day lives – from commerce to healthcare to work. So, we have categories such as: • consumer privacy • medical/healthcare privacy • employee/workplace privacy
Cybertechnology-related Techniques that Threaten Privacy • Data-gathering techniques used to collect and record personal information, often without the knowledge and consent of users • Data-exchanging techniques used to transfer and exchange personal data across and between computer databases, typically without the knowledge and consent of users • Data-mining techniques used to search for patterns implicit in large databases in order to generate consumer profiles based on behavioral patterns discovered in certain groups