Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
(I posted this earlier today on the PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research) team's Medium channel) The growth of research projects relying on pervasive data — big datasets about people’s lives and activities that can be collected without them knowing —…
Read More How Contextual Integrity can help us with Research Ethics in Pervasive Data
I'm happy to share the (open) publication of a new article "Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics: An Application of Contextual Integrity" in Social Media + Society. In this article, I revisit the OkCupid data collection and release controversy,…
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project! This is a 12-month position, with possible renewal for a 2nd year. Details below. Please join us! Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant Project: PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics…
[Note: this PhD position is no longer available. See recent posting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate here] Are you a graduate student interested in big data, data ethics, internet research, or internet research ethics? Are you looking for a funded…
Read More Funded PhD Position to Join PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
I'm thrilled to announce PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), a collaborative, 4-year research project funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how diverse stakeholders - big data researchers, platforms, regulators, and user communities -…
Read More New NSF Grant Project: PERVADE — Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
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Read More ALISE Webinar: Ethics in Library Research Data Services
We clearly have entered the era of big data. Armed with petabytes of transaction data, clickstreams and cookie logs, as well as data from social networks, mobile phones, and the “internet of things,” a wide range of economic interests, including…
Read More Wired Editorial: “OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science”
The New York Times recently extolled the virtues of using GPS in digital cameras and camera cellphones to "geotag" photos with the location at which they were taken: ...advocates of geotagging, like Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of the photo-sharing Web site…
Alice Marwick provides useful thoughts on the privacy and data-mining issues surrounding the sharing of personal data on Web 2.0 apps. She shares three common "solutions" to the "problem" of teenagers' divulgence of personal information: 1. Young people should stop…
Read More Obfuscation as a Solution to Web 2.0 Data-Mining Threat
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