Big Data as Tracking Technology and Problems of the Group and its Members

Haleh Asgarinia

doi:10.1093/oso/9780192864918.003.0005

Big Data as Tracking Technology and Problems of the Group and its Members

Haleh Asgarinia

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Abstract

Digital data help data scientists and epidemiologists track and predict outbreaks of disease. Mobile phone GPS data, social media data, or other forms of information updates such as the progress of epidemics are used by epidemiologists to recognize disease spread among specific groups of people. Targeting groups as potential carriers of a disease, rather than addressing individuals as patients, risks causing harm to groups. While there are rules and obligations at the level of the individual, we have to reach a stage in the development of data analytics where groups are protected as entities. This chapter offers a deeper examination of harms to the groups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency
Editors	Kevin Macnish, Adam Henschke
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	4
Pages	60-75
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9780192864918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864918.003.0005
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2023

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