04/03/18 Ethics and the Data Sciences

Peggy welcomes back show regular Joshua Peschel, assistant professor, Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, to discuss the alleged misuse of Facebook data to influence public opinion. He explains that Facebook got outfoxed and outsmarted because it didn’t believe someone could come in and do what they did—it was just a loophole that got exploited. He says with professions like civil engineering or construction engineering, there are standards for ethics, but when you get into data sciences, there isn’t the same code of ethics, but assures there are a lot of people talking about ethics for data sciences now.