ethics and data
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ETHICS & DATADiscussing, teaching, enacting
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The sheer amount of data we are generating is pretty insane
❖ Banks!
❖ Gyms!
❖ Student loans!
❖ Insurance companies!
❖ Health care providers!
❖ EZPass!
❖ T-Pass!
❖ Tech support calls!
❖ Public records - Birth, Marriage, Death, Sale of property, Legal proceedings!
❖ Public Surveillance Cameras!
❖ Future/Now: IoT, Wearables, DashboardCams, CopCams, Drones, Microlocation devices
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Data is the method of the powerful, who have resources to acquire, store and make sense of large quantities of data.
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Many data practices are closed, extractive and centralized
individuals communities
Corporate Databases, Data Brokers, Government, INGOs
NSA
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Open Data Movement - hope for more widely distributed access to data and know-how
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CHALLENGES FOR OPEN DATA
• Most corporate data & government data still not open. Many “accountability” data sets notably missing from open data. (Open Data Barometer report)
• Data that you need doesn’t exist because it’s not in anyone’s interest to collect it (police killings)
• Anonymized and aggregated data can be rematched to create personally identifiable information (AOL incident, Science/MIT Media Lab research, NYC Taxis and Celebrities)
• Risk of data retained forever - not sensitive now but could be sensitive in future.
• Data literacy gap to translate data into civic practices.
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Often, just opening data is not enough. We see troubling cases of possible misuse of data.
❖ Target teenage pregnancy - Should corporate practices be able to bypass HIPAA regulations?!
❖ Predictive Parole - Should algorithms and personal data help determine parole?!
❖ The Mugshot Industry - Should public data feed into public shaming? Is this a violation of “innocent until proven guilty”?!
❖ Gun owners & the Journal News - Should journalists be able to publish gun owners’ home addresses?!
❖ 538 reports on “Nigerian Kidnappings” - Yikes. Even data journalists get things really, really wrong sometimes.!
❖ “Doxing” - Should we have consequences for doxing, which often uses public data to shame, harass or bully an individual?
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WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO TEACH JOURNALISM STUDENTS ABOUT DATA
& ETHICS?
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WHAT I WANT THEM TO LEARN
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• Case studies to see nuance
• Data comes from material practices
• Ecosystem of personal data
• Data doesn’t have all the answers
• Privacy concerns, protecting self and sources, assessing risk now and into the future
• Nuts and bolts of tools (end-to-end encryption, deleting data securely, etc.)
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CONTEXT• Journalism Undergrads and Grads
• Professionally oriented, Like learning practical skills
• Media savvy but not “techies”
• They will read but I have to emphasize that they will need to “perform” the reading in some way in class
• Class is studio-based; Prefer activities & projects to lectures & theory
• Limited class time