Ethical Leadership and Governance

Organizations are increasingly under pressure to protect customer data and ensure it is used responsibly. To hold themselves accountable, companies need a formalized data program.

How data trusts, collaboratives & coops can help govern data for maximum public benefit

We don’t allow people to sell their kidneys. We shouldn’t let them sell the details of their lives, either.

Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.

The big tech business model by which users provide personal data in exchange of services is coming to crisis point, with data ownership under heavy scrutiny

Discussions of ethics in data science and artificial intelligence are all well and good, but they won't go anywhere if the prime directive is making massive profits for venture capitalists.

Surveillance capitalism as a revenue model through the observation and recording of as much personal data as possible to create highly effective targeted advertisements is growing unchecked. Can regulation level the playing field?

We’re reaching the endgame of an inevitable showdown between big tech and regulators with a ley battleground around consumer data.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand what privacy means—he can’t be trusted to define it for the rest of us.

That Facebook was willing to defy Apple is a telling sign — and one that regulator should keep in mind as they try to get a handle on the company.

How can — and should — managers bring ethical questions into their decision-making?

Antonio Casilli publie l'ouvrage En attendant les robots, enquête sur le travail du clic. Éclairage sur les dessous d'une exploitation 2.0.

Cloudera Chief Architect and Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says that the time has arrived for data privacy and ethics rules.

Majorities of U.S. adults believe their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and that it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked.

There are so many cases of companies misusing data or not keeping it private that we hardly bat an eye when yet another story breaks.

A bill introduced by senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley would require big tech companies to disclose the data they collect and value it for each user.

It’s common practice for people’s data to be shared with partners of companies, etc. where individuals don’t understand who’s getting their data and why. Modern technology changes that, and it’s essential for all humans to have new tools so they can project their digital truth in the digital and algorithmic era.

Asking tech leaders how to regulate their own industry might be like “asking the foxes how best to guard the henhouse.”

With high-profile scandals and the seemingly daily buzz of breaches, scams and exploits, it’s more and more obvious that the data points that make up your online profiles are a hot commodity. Time for the citizenry to take back their personal data and bring back responsibility into the ecosystem.

California is putting a proposal on the table to force big tech to create a digital dividend fund to share revenue from any personal data monetization. Will this address increased demand for income inequality and government involvement in wealth redistribution?

Regards croisés d'Annie Blandin et Benoit Tabaka pour l'Institut Montaigne

If no one reads the terms and conditions, how can they continue to be the legal backbone of the internet?

The all-seeing Amazon, Google, and Facebook have every incentive to help the national security state undermine privacy, free speech, and democracy. We’ve read this book before.

Most people would be rightly excited by the prospect of artificial intelligence automating all facets of our lives. But with machines' increasing ability to mine personal data, collate that data and draw conclusions about behavior, is the sacrifice of privacy and control something people would be willing to give up?

Lawmakers will have to balance ways companies can use data with people’s rights of privacy