The ethics of biomedical "Big Data" analytics

Brent Mittelstadt

pp. 17-21

in: Brent Mittelstadt (ed), The ethics of biomedical "Big Data" analytics, Philosophy & Technology 32 (1), 2019.

Abstract

In modern information societies, individuals generate streams of diverse and potentially valuable data. Digital technologies now easily and routinely record data about the behaviours and preferences of individuals at an unprecedented scale. Analytic techniques to make sense of this glut of data have grown in parallel, ushering in what some have called the age of ‘Big Data’.