The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_17

17. Data Ethics and Compliance

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

Figure 17-1

There is a dark side to data

Ethical behavior and data?

What could go wrong?

Everybody knows that most countries don’t allow for organizations to reject job applicants for their skin color or religious belief. The reasons are easy to understand.

But not all evil we could do with data is forbidden by law. A lot of it is simply too young to have been cast in paragraphs.

On the other side, some activities that are by no means meant to do ...