“Ten simple rules for responsible big data research,” published in PLoS Computational Biology, provides practical guidance for big data researchers on the complexities of privacy protections, preventing re-identification of research subjects, and recognizing the difference between publicly available data and user consent for third-party research. This paper represents the work of the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, funded by the National Science Foundation grant # IIS-1413864.
Authors: Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, and Frank Pasquale, March 30, 2017.
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