Tag: Ethics

  • Just because you can, it doesn’t mean that you should

    Just because you can, it doesn’t mean that you should

    I was first given the keys to an organisation’s IT infrastructure in early 1997 at the tender age of 24. In previous roles I’d been the person tinkering away with a PC, trying to find ways of using computers to help my “proper job” – but this was my first experience of IT being the…

  • The ethical challenges of big data personality profiling

    The ethical challenges of big data personality profiling

    A recent BBC News article (Personality tests: Are you average, self-centred, role-model or reserved?) came up for discussion in an online coaching forum recently. These moves are simultaneously exciting and terrifying! Let’s take the Facebook example. The insight from the data won’t be from the fact that you “like” kitten pictures or Liverpool Football Club…