[liberationtech] Big data ethics

[David Johnson]

Here's a nice piece by Neil Richards and Jonathan King on developing norms for dealing with big data ...

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/gigabytes-gone-wild.html


The values we build or fail to build into our new digital structures will define us. If we don’t balance the human values that we care about — such as privacy, confidentiality, transparency, identity and free choice — with the compelling uses of big data, our society risks abandoning them for the sake of mere innovation or expediency.

Best wishes,

David

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