Behind the Data: Humans and Values

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.

Skill Sets

Ethical and legal frameworks / Policy analysis / Oral and written presentation

Current Course Designers

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Deirdre Mulligan

Professor

dkm@ischool.berkeley.edu

303B South Hall

(510) 642-0499

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Morgan Ames

Assistant Professor of Practice Alumni (MIMS 2006)

305B South Hall

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Original Course Designer

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Deirdre Mulligan

Professor

dkm@ischool.berkeley.edu

303B South Hall

(510) 642-0499

Previously listed as DATASCI W231.