Intro to the legal, policy, and ethical implications of data, including privacy, surveillance, security, classification, discrimination, decisional-autonomy, and duties to warn or act. Examines legal, policy, and ethical issues throughout the full data-science life cycle — collection, storage, processing, analysis, and use — with case studies from criminal justice, national security, health, marketing, politics, education, employment, athletics, and development. Includes legal and policy constraints and considerations for specific domains and data-types, collection methods, and institutions; technical, legal, and market approaches to mitigating and managing concerns; and the strengths and benefits of competing and complementary approaches.

Requisites

• MIDS and MPA students only.

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for DATASCI W231 after completing DATASCI 231. A deficient grade in DATASCI W231 may be removed by taking DATASCI 231.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.