{"title":"Doing Harm","authors":"Gary Smith, Jason L. Cordes","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198844396.003.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An unfortunate reality in the age of big data is Big Brother monitoring us incessantly. Big Brother is indeed watching, but it is big business as well as big government collecting detailed information about everything we do so that they can predict our actions and manipulate our behavior. Big business and big government monitor our credit cards, checking accounts, computers, and telephones, watch us on surveillance cameras, and purchase data from firms dedicated to finding out everything they can about each and every one of us. Good data scientists proceed cautiously, respectful of our rights and our privacy. The Golden Rule applies to data science: treat others as you would like to be treated.","PeriodicalId":331229,"journal":{"name":"The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844396.003.0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An unfortunate reality in the age of big data is Big Brother monitoring us incessantly. Big Brother is indeed watching, but it is big business as well as big government collecting detailed information about everything we do so that they can predict our actions and manipulate our behavior. Big business and big government monitor our credit cards, checking accounts, computers, and telephones, watch us on surveillance cameras, and purchase data from firms dedicated to finding out everything they can about each and every one of us. Good data scientists proceed cautiously, respectful of our rights and our privacy. The Golden Rule applies to data science: treat others as you would like to be treated.