Data is Risky Business: Data Quality Discussion about Data Ethics
The Data Ethics Conundrum The recent DAMA EMEA conference was a valiant effort to connect the DAMA membership in the…
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Data is Risky Business: The Data Crisis Unmasked
As I am writing this, countries around the world are fighting a global pandemic. This is the first global pandemic…
Data is Risky Business: Data Literacy is Not Just About Shiny Toys
In this column I want to talk about data literacy, and not because it is the “buzzword de jour.” By…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Big Data, More Data, BIG Issue
More, more, more! We are culturally conditioned to want more. More money, more fun, more pleasure, more accomplishment, more intelligence,…
Data is Risky Business: Group Think and the Man Behind the Curtain
There have been a couple of different things converged in my media feeds that highlight a key issue that all…
Data is Risky Business: The Ethics Revolution in Information
This past month, San Francisco’s City Council voted to ban the use of facial recognition technologies. Internationally, and perhaps a…
We Need Data Ethics Now
What are the ethics of collecting, managing, and analyzing data? Have we given sufficient thought to that question? Is it…
Data is Risky Business: Call for Compulsory Ethics
In our book, Ethical Data and Information Management, Katherine O’Keefe and I look at the relationship between the Ethic of Society, which today finds expression…
Data is Risky Business: Situational Modifiers and the Myth of “Data Governance Ethics”
In this column, I want to address two topics that have recently popped up that I believe are essential to…
Data is Risky Business: I’m a Doctor, Jim …
In Star Trek, DeForest Kelley use to exclaim “I’m a Doctor Jim, not an engineer” or something similar whenever Captain…