Ethical Challenges of Big Data

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Across the public, private and nonprofit sectors we are seeing an enormous increase in the use of “Big Data” or more generally the use of complex data analytics in the managerial decision making process. Many view this as a positive trend by making claims that finally “data” and therefore “empirical facts” will form the basis of the decision making process. While it “might” be possible to make this case in for-profit enterprises the use of big data, data analytics and data mining pose some significant ethical questions in the public and nonprofit sectors. This courses examine these ethical challenges and explores for ways to overcome them.