Identifying data ethical concerns
When it comes to ethical concerns about data, we see that this topic has grown in prominence in recent years. This is because, in our digital big data era, we create masses more data every day, as discussed in previous chapters. But this data, whether pertaining to an individual or a business, can often be personal or sensitive, and open to exploitation by cybercriminals or others looking to exploit or use this information for negative gain.
Initially, this was a kind of gray area as there were no particular rules defined. People just did amazing things, such as predicting when a website visitor booked an airplane ticket online that they also would buy insurance (a sort of classification was used here). Wherever we could lay our hands on data from an internal and external perspective, we could do amazing things without even worrying about rules or ethical concerns.
But today, the data ethics landscape is different. Issues such as the ownership...