A Hippocratic oath for data?
Julian Schwarzenbach
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Julian Schwarzenbach
Consultant, Author & Trainer | Data & Asset management || Data does not have to be difficult!
For those of us involved in data exploitation should we have a version of the Hippocratic oath used by doctors? Or perhaps an adaptation of the "Universal Ethical Code for Scientists"? :
Rigour
- Act with skill and care in all work. Maintain up to date skills and assist their development in others
- Take steps to prevent corrupt practices and professional misconduct. Declare conflicts of interest
- Be alert to the ways in which work derives from and affects the work of other people, and respect the rights and reputations of others.
Respect
- Ensure that your work is lawful and justified
- Minimise and justify any adverse effect your work may have on people, animals and the natural environment
Responsibility
- Seek to discuss the issues that your work raises for society. Listen to the aspirations and concerns of others.
- Do not knowingly mislead, or allow others to be misled, about data matters. Present and review evidence, theory or interpretation honestly and accurately.
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Expert in Public Sector Technology - equally at home in the real and virtual worlds. Writer, speaker, panel host, finding new and significant solutions.
4 年Usually people give their personal information because they are at a low ebb and need help. They don’t give it for the purposes of being exploited - either by the state, data scientists or by profit making companies. They trust that it will find it’s way to a compassionate person that will have the real world experience to help. My fear about data and the tools we use to exploit them - is the human tendency to curiosity. Take a stone flint and we start thinking - what can I use this for? What else? We get carried away with technology. I worked on the privacy aspects of Contactpoint-the children’s register. We looked at the life and death dangers of sharing address data for people on witness protection programmes or fleeing domestic violence. Not just the average 1950’s style households. These are circumstances that most ‘data driven’ guys can’t imagine. They live in a fantasy world where everyone has an iPhone 11 and has nothing better to do than configure security settings. But 5 women a work a week are murdered under lockdown by their partners (up from 2 before lock down). Add an army of volunteers with access to people’s movement data through a track and trace app. Irresponsible? Ethics requires diversity of experiences.
Senior Info/Data Management Professional - Experienced Senior Leader in multiple Data Management disciplines - Data Strategy | Data Governance | Data Protection | Data Privacy
4 年The data leaders manifesto is a reference i use in this leadership space. https://dataleaders.org/manifesto/
Data| Information| Technology
4 年It's interesting how you grouped them into 3 R's. The Responsibility part resonated "Do not knowingly mislead, or allow others to be misled, about data matters. Present and review evidence, theory or interpretation honestly and accurately" Apt!
Built Environment Information Consultant
4 年Excellent and applicable to all ‘professions’ and trades (data=>expertise). I’d like to see a responsibility for social, economic and environmental sustainability. All highly dependant on information sustainability - the creation and curation of information so as to not preclude its future use
Group Data & AI Product Manager
4 年Karyn Shanlin?would love everyone to take the oath at SG!