Rebecca Hill, The Register; The only way is ethics: UK.gov emphasises moral compass amid deluge of data plans
"The UK government has released a guide to help civil servants figure out
how to use and procure data science tools ethically as public opinion
on slurping continues to circle the drain...
The Data Ethics Framework
is one of the ways the government hopes to demonstrate it is taking the
issue of proper use of data seriously, aiming to act as a sanity check
for civil servants who work with data, either directly or indirectly.
The idea is for the framework to act as a guide to
the limitations of data and data science; it sets out questions and
issues to consider, such as bias or errors in data sets, algorithmic
bias, fairness and accountability, and the need for transparency.
The decision to create the framework is partly down
to the increasing number of non-data scientists working with data in one
way or another...
In parallel with this is the government's supposedly independent Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, which was first mooted in November 2017 and aims to act as a bridge between regulators, academia, the public and business."
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