Digital ethics and Usage Flashcards
Define Ethics
Ethics are the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the way in which they conduct an activity.
Define Law
Rules that regulate the actions of people and is enforced by the threat of penalties.
Define Digital ethics
Revolves around the question of how one should handle data and new technologies in a responsible manner.
Define ethics of data
How we generate, record, use and share data
Define ethics of algortihms
How we interpret data via AI, machine learning and robots
Define ethics of practice
Devising responsible innovation and professional codes to guide science.
What is ownership of data?
When an individual has ownership over their personal information. Its unlawful and unethical to collect someone’s personal data without their consent.
What is ethical transparency?
Data subjects have a right to know how you plan to collect, store, and use their data.
What is privacy?
Even if you give consent to collect data and store personally identifiable information (PII), that doesn’t mean they want it publicly available.
What are some popular approaches to privacy?
De-identification and data security
What is intention in terms of data collection?
Why do you need data? What do you gain from it and what changes you’ll be able to make after analysis.
What are outcomes in terms of data collection?
The outcome of data analysis may cause individual harm to individuals or groups of people called a disparate impact.
What is GDPR?
General data protection regulation. It imposes obligations onto organisations anywhwre as long as they taeget or collect data related to people in the EU.
What are the 7 principles of GDPR regulation?
- Lawfulness, fairness & transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data minimisation
- Accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Integrity & Confidentiality
- Accountability
What are the 5 ethical principles?
- Human-centric & Socially beneficial
- Fair
- Explainable & Transparent
- Secure & Safe
- Accountable
