Data Ethics of Power – A Human Approach to Big Data and AI Imagine an AI robot that sieves through pictures containing predominantly white faces deciding what human ‘beauty’ means. Ponder on an online search system that learns from news articles to recognize words such as ‘nanny’ and ‘receptionist’ as female and words such as…
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Chapter in New book: AI – The Data Ethics Perspective
Artificially intelligent technologies are complex data processing systems that pose several ethical challenges. We should consider the data intensity of these technologies and find solutions to the ethical implications in legislation, design and society in general. We develop intelligent systems to create order in our messy contemporary reality, but very rarely do we put demands…
Data Ethics Principles and Guidelines
Finally, me and my team mates in DataEhics.eu got spare time to develop a set of data ethics principles and guidelines. They are based on years of work and hands on experiences with the life of data handling and practices in organisations and businesses and combines our legal and humanistic knowledge. Our point of departure…
Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage/Tech Crunch
The following is an abstract from the book Data Ethics — The New Competitive Advantage (2016) by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg, TechCrunch, Nov 12, 2016. We are living in an era defined and shaped by data. Data makes the world go round. It is politics, it is culture, it is everyday life and it is business. Our data-flooded era…
“It is excellent and without exaggeration a must read for anyone who on a commercial or political level are dealing with big data …” – Økonomisk Ugebrev, Berlingske Business.
Data ethics – the New Competitive Advantage by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg
Report on Digital Challenges for Consumers (Danish Consumers’ Council)
A new 2016 report from the Danish Consumers’ Council “Digital Challenges for Consumers in Denmark” by Gry Hasselbalch maps key challenges for Danish consumers in the digital era. A rapid digital adoption in Denmark has created a number of challenges for Danish consumers. In particular automatic data collection and correlation performed by both public and…
Youth, privacy and online media: Framing the right to privacy in public policy-making
by Gry Hasselbalch Lapenta, Rikke Frank Jørgensen PUBLICATIONS: The right to privacy is a fundamental human right defined in international and regional human rights instruments. As such it has been included as a core component of key legislature and policy proceedings throughout the brief history of the World Wide Web. While it is generally recognized in…
Writing a book: The Privacy Paradigm Shift in Business Development
PUBLICATIONS: Pernille Tranberg og Gry Hasselbalch are currently writing a book about Data Ethics in business development. The book is based on more than 40 business cases worldwide. Expected publication in English and Danish summer 2016.
Study of Youth, Privacy and Social Media: Facebook is a precondition for social participation
PUBLICATIONS: In 2013 the think tank Digital Youth conducted a study among Danish youth in 11 focus groups to explore their strategies to control their privacy on social media.
Privacy as Innovation: Background paper, IGF 2014
Privacy is a key emerging issue in Internet Governance processes. Looked upon most often as an area of risk and protection, it is in this paper viewed as an area of opportunity and innovation. A paradigm shift is on its way. This entails a shift in focus where the legal protection of privacy rather than…
“The right to privacy online” (English translation of my op ed in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende)
In 1992 the public gained access to the former Eastern Germany secret service Stasi archives. They consisted of 180 kilometers files and 35 million other documents, photos , audio, documents and taped phone conversations. The archives are evidence of a gigantic effort. Physical penetration into people’s homes, hours of interception and handling of information. Stasi…
The Focus Group Survey 2013: Youth’s Public and Private Lives on Social Media
To assert control over the flow of images, personal content and social contexts is essential to young people when using social media. The Danish think tank Digital Youth published the report Youth’s Public and Private Lives on Social Media in November 2013. The report was based on interviews with young people about their strategies to preserve…
Privacy is the latest digital media business model (English translation of op ed in Politiken, August 2013)
– by Gry Hasselbalch If you mentioned privacy and data protection in a discussion about digital media business innovation, data portability and social sharing a few years ago, you would most certainly have been viewed as a spoilsport. But do the same today and you might actually assert yourself as a great innovator.
When Moblogger met Littlebrother – or how new communication technologies influence behaviour
New communication technologies provide people with the tools to be heard and to participate openly in society. They also influence the way we live our everyday lives and interact with each other. Could it be that our awareness of the communication technologies around us leads to a more self-conscious behaviour?
Self-regulation, organisation and governance among internet users
Inappropriate content ‘flagged’ by users, news items ranked by users, online sellers rated by users, online lexica articles written by users and silent agreements among users on socially acceptable behaviour in online communities…
Digitale kløfter (“Digital divides”, op ed, Dagbladet Information)
En digital revolution har fundet sted. Den er fejet over landene, har forbundet dem med sitrende kabler og signaler og dannet et netværk af vigtige informationer. Den har ændret måden, mange af os kommunikerer, arbejder og lever på. Og den har ændret økonomiske såvel som politiske makrostrukturer.
Uhyggeligt tæt på (“Uncannily close”, op ed, Dagbladet Information)
Verden føles mindre. Det geografisk afgrænsede rum er blevet til »flows« af ikke kun information og billeder, men også af mennesker. Hvad der engang var langt væk er nu både fysisk, og især symbolsk, gennem massemedierne, uhyggeligt tæt på. Afstand bliver derfor kulturel. Når traditionelle sociale og geografiske grænser nedbrydes, dannes nye symbolske grænser, og…
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