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 . This page will change often! (25Jun=v.55) information 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 : working on Ethically Aligned Design of autonomous systems. IEEE Standards Association Accenture #2 #3 via Causeit EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Facebook Cambridge Analytica NGP VAN Oxford Internet Institute Pro Publica Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society LSE Media Policy Project Information Technology & Innovation Foundation — using blockchain for diamond provenance Everledger — AI for visual tasks (e.g. insurance claims) Tractable — mental healthcare app with NLP Sunrise Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning Algorithmic Justice League MIT Media Lab (Oxford Internet Institute) Political Bots 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 — , treatment, mental health, diagnosis 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