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What is “public” and “private”
How does one know what personal information is flowing on the internet and what is actually protected, how can one find out or track down what happens to his data?
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As we have shown, this is due to the history of shaping ethics regulations around the epistemic conditions and particular scandals of biomedical research.
To what extent do these ethics fall, what do they state, and how much are they missing to what people can or cannot cross.
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Should Twitter users now expect that their social media activities could affect their ability to get a loan?
To what extreme can each one's personal data? It could prevent jobs, now loans, what else?
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Another researcher demonstrated how the taxi dataset could be used to speculate which taxi drivers were devout Muslims by observing which drivers stopped at Muslim prayer times
This data if it also falls in the wrong hands, someone who is anti-muslim for example may cause chaos.
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A data scientist at Neustar Research showed that by combining this data set with other forms of public information like celebrity blogs you could track well-known actors,
This could be a lot more dangerous that most people think, because we don't know who is tracking who down, and for what reason.
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Data science risks falling into a regulatory gap that could undermine public trust.
The more that the public lose trust to the people collecting their data, they might decide to start doing something about it. They could sue them, expose them to the public, boycott companies, etc.
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