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Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC’s) Section 5 jurisdiction failed to consider an important dimension of the commission’s unfairness authority. No one mentioned that FTC’s unfairness authority may hold the key to minimizing big data’s h...
What an ethics policy might look like.
Thoughtful elucidation of the difficulty of figuring out ethics in Internet research. Also good history of IRBs and research ethics in science.
The Havasupai people, who live in the Grand Canyon, had claimed that university researchers misused their DNA.
A convention seeks to establish ethical guidelines for research on online learners, even as the larger debate about privacy in higher education rages on.
The official journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Publishes peer-reviewed research for biomedical and health informatics. Coverage includes
Nevada's state longitudinal data system does not contain readable records for individual children, state officials said, raising new questions in the educational-data debate.
We now know the apparatus of repression has been attached to the democratic state, but our struggle for privacy is far from hopeless. By Eben Moglen
ConnectEDU, a college and career planning site that collected student data, has proposed selling information as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
Technological progress should bring greater safety, economic opportunity, and convenience to everyone. And the collection of new types of data is essential for documenting persistent inequality and discrimination. At the same time, as new technologies allow companies and government to gain greater insight into our lives, it is vitally important that these technologies be designed […]
I get asked pretty often whether I “believe” in open data. I tend to murmur a response along the lines of “it depends,” which doesn’t seem too satisfying to me or to t…