https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/data-ethics-the-new-competitive-advantage/
[Note: completely re-done due to all the updates I’ve made over time.]
This post presents a limited summary of the data ethics field as I see it at the moment. I break it down into parts: People, Organisations/Applications, Issues, and Case Studies. With each item I provide a link for further information. This page will change often! (25Jun=v.55)
People
- Mike Ananny
- Solon Barocas
- Rob Bensinger
- Danah Boyd
- Lee A Bygrave
- Corinne Cath
- Danielle Keats Citron
- Kate Crawford
- Kenneth Cukier
- Kord Davis
- Simon DeDeo
- Nicholas Diakopolous
- Cynthia Dwork
- Amitai Etzioni
- Oren Etzioni
- Luciano Floridi
- Oscar H Gandy
- Abe Gong
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Gry Hasselbalch
- Don Heider
- Mirelle Hildebrandt
- Daniel Hulme
- Emily F Keller
- Michal Kosinski
- Min Kyung Lee
- Robin Mansell
- Sandra Matz
- Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
- Jacob Metcalf
- Brent D Mittelstadt
- Helen Nissenbaum
- Osonde Osoba
- Frank Pasquale
- Sarah Roberts
- Judith Simon
- Katherine Strandburg
- Mariarosaria Taddeo
- Zeynep Tifekci
- Nathaniel Tkacz
- Sandra Wachter
- Toby Walsh
- Blay Whitby
- Andrej Zwitter
Organisations / Applications
- IEEE Standards Association: working on Ethically Aligned Design of autonomous systems.
- Accenture #2 #3 via Causeit
- EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Cambridge Analytica
- NGP VAN
- Oxford Internet Institute
- Pro Publica
- Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society
- LSE Media Policy Project
- Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
- Everledger — using blockchain for diamond provenance
- Tractable — AI for visual tasks (e.g. insurance claims)
- Sunrise — mental healthcare app with NLP
- Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning
- Algorithmic Justice League
- MIT Media Lab
- Political Bots (Oxford Internet Institute)
- Center for Digital Ethics & Policy
- Data & Society Research Institute
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics — Ethics Lab
- UK Data Archive — Consent & Ethics
- Center for Big Data Ethics, Law, and Policy
- European Data Protection Supervisor
- Future Advocacy
- Open Data Institute
- Robohub
- Future of Life Institute
- Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
- The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
- The Automatic Statistician
- Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group
Issues
- privacy
- best practice / standard / code of conduct
- transparency / accountability
- bias
- consent
- assurance / integrity
- netnography
- media / news
- politics / democracy
- healthcare — diagnosis, treatment, mental health, telemedicine
- education
- government services
- economics
- insurance — report by Accenture (2017)
- future of the workforce
- law
- surveillance / law enforcement / intelligence
- cyber security
- armed conflict / military
Case Studies
- Trump election
- Target pregnancy ad
- Brexit campaign
- Ted Cruz campaign surge
- UK Tory election campaign
- Obama campaign
- Air France 447 crash
- Compas system
- predictive policing
- Education, client data, surveillance
- Facebook targeting depressed kids
- Facebook emotional contagion study
- The ‘Facebook Files’
- Japan My Number ID card
- Admiral Insurance #2
- Ashley Madison