The Canary in the Gold Mine: Ethics, Privacy, and Big Data Analytics

• Authors: Harwood William H.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper offers a sketch of the complicated conflicts which arise—and metastasize seemingly daily—in the era of Big Data. Given the public’s ubiquitous-yet-ostensibly- voluntarydatasurrender,andindustry’subiquitous-yet-ostensibly-anodynecollectionof the same, inaction is not an option for any near-just society. By revisiting the philosophical basis for Panoptic apparatus (via Bentham and Foucault), sketching the tumultuous history of US contract law trying to protect the public from itself (from Lochner to Carpenter), and comparing existing industry codes for similarly-situated—read: terrifyingly invasive—fields (e.g., physicians, therapists, attorneys, accountants), the paper will provide a preliminary framework for identifying and confronting the galaxy of problems associated with data analytics.

Keywords

EN

Computer and information ethics; contract law; critical data studies; data ethics; privacy; surveillance

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 141-150

Contributors

author

Harwood William H.

• Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, MO 65897 USA.