Introduction “Chatting with me is like having an older sister you can talk to, but who can’t steal your clothes”, says Billie, Meta’s newly introduced
Over the last decade or so, there has been considerable hype around terms such as ‘data’, ‘big data’ and ‘AI’. It would be hard for
Introduction Digital data collection offers enormous possibilities for richer health research and more detailed insights than can be achieved by standard methods such as questionnaires,
European governments (including the UK government) have been actively seeking to maximise the economic value of data and promote innovation. In 2015, the European Union
Recently on LinkedIn I saw a post from elsewhere in the data community, quoting the famous claim made by the late American economist and statistician,
Everything is political; even data is political. Sound data ethics practices require that the political nature of data be taken seriously, and this matters for
Part 1: Everyone can do ethics, can’t they? Ethics is an unusual discipline, because it’s something which everyone knows a bit about. It’s impossible to
Data ethics as a distinct area of deliberation is growing rapidly and has numerous subfields, such as ethics in machine learning; AI ethics; ethics of
Data (platforms) and widening the presumption of data reuse The rationale underlying big data-driven healthcare, research, and commerce is that linkage and integration of datasets
The standard approach to securing consent for collecting and analysing data from individuals is, in a legal and regulatory sense, well defined. Assuming the uses
