EAS 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mit Media Lab, Big Data, Computer Ethics
14 Mar 2019
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With big data comes big responsibility (pentland, mit media lab) Call for more transparency in data being collected. Must consider the varied impacts of big data. Most trust in companies who are transparent. Assumes people are willing to share information if it improves their lives. The new deal on data is a rebalancing of ownership of data in favor of the individual whose data is collected. Teens feel their privacy is controlled by adults (e. g. parents) Case of police scrapping public facebook photos. Teens build up their boundaries and trade off how much to share. Since the enlightenment, traditional deontological utilitarian ethics place a strong emphasis on moral responsibility of the individual, often also called moral agency. This idea of moral agency very much stems from almost religiously followed assumptions about individualism and free will. Both these assumptions experience challenges when it comes to the advancement of modern technology, particularly big data.
