Data Analysis & Privacy Critical Issues

What are the key privacy issues related to data analysis?

1. Ownership & privacy rights for data and insights.

2. Decisions based on unsure or probabilistic inferences.

What privacy questions arise regarding gathered or given data?

What protections and rights do individuals have over the personal data they've provided or that has been collected about them?

What privacy questions arise regarding information/insights generated from data mining?

What protections and rights do individuals have over the new information or insights that are derived from their data through analysis?

What is a critical issue with decisions made on unsure or probabilistic inference?

These decisions can be potentially discriminatory or unfair because they are based on probabilities or incomplete information, not certainties.

Give an example of how probabilistic inference can be discriminatory.

Probabilistic gene-matching in criminal cases, where an uncertain match could unfairly implicate an individual.