The BIG Data Ethics Cheat Sheet

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)
• 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
• 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