08/01/2017

The Unspoken Contract You Have With Your Data

Data ethics is becoming harder to ignore

The data you acquire—no matter its source—generally comes from someone who was willing to share it with you. You have a responsibility to do the right thing with it, and could run into trouble if you don’t. Here’s why data ethics is becoming harder to ignore.

When someone joins your organization or does business with you, he or she expects certain things out of that transaction. You create a social contract of sorts, a set of parameters for which you’re allowed to act in. And when you stretch beyond those parameters, you threaten that entire relationship.

Such is the tale of a controversy that iRobot stirred up last week. In comments to Reuters, Colin Angle, the CEO of the robotic vacuum maker, hinted that its cloud-based mapping features could be sold to other companies.

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