NYT Piece on Data Ethics by NMCC Director Colin Koopman

Be sure to check out NMCC Director Colin Koopman’s latest think piece in the New York TimesĀ on the need to build ethics into the infrastructure of datafication and collection:

“How Democracy Can Survive Big Data”

Illustration by Yoshi Sodeoka; Photographs by Flashpop/Digitalvision, via Getty Images

“We have in the course of a single century built an entire society, economy and culture that runs on information. Yet we have hardly begun to engineer data ethics appropriate for our extraordinary information carnival. If we do not do so soon, data will drive democracy, and we may well lose our chance to do anything about it.”

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