Introduction & Overview
One of the defining issues of our age has been the extraordinary progress that has been made in digital technology. It has revolutionised communications and problem solving, but at the same time has presented us with formidable ethical and moral questions, many of them intersecting with human rights and psychology.
Bibliography
General
Big Data / Data Rights
- *Big Data in Psychology: Introduction to Special Issue
- 7 Rights of Individuation: The Need for Greater Protection of Individual Rights in Big Data
- Data Rights and Wrongs
- Facial Recognition Technology can Expose Political Orientation from Naturalistic Facial Images
- Personal Data v. Big Data in the EU: Control Lost, Discrimination Found
Human Rights &
Data /Big Data
- Dynamics of Big Data and Human Rights: The Case of Scientific Research
- Human Rights in the Big Data World
- Is the Human Rights Framework Still Fit for the Big Data Era? A Discussion of the ECtHR’s Case Law on Privacy Violations Arising from Surveillance Activities
- Will Privacy be one of the Victims of COVID-19?
Intersection of Human Rights and Psychology &
Data /Big Data
- Analyzing Big Data in Psychology: A Split/Analyze/Meta-Analyze Approach
- Big Data in Psychology: A Framework for Research Advancement
- Big data in psychology: Introduction to the special issue
- Big Data in Social and Psychological Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- Foundations for a Decolonial Big Data Psychology
- Practical Guide to Big Data Research in Psychology
- Psycho-Informatics: Big Data Shaping Modern Psychometrics
- Using Big Data as a Window into Consumers’ Psychology
Resources
Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project: https://www.hrbdt.ac.uk/publications/
Big Data in Psychology – Special Issue in Psychological Methods,2016
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5221569/
Social Physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_physics
Machine leaning and human rights implications: 2021 Reith Lectures “Living with Artificial Intelligence”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9
UN guidance on using big data to track SDGs : Data Privacy, Ethics and Protection: Guidance Note on Big Data for Achievement of the 2030 Agenda. https://unsdg.un.org/resources/data-privacy-ethics-and-protection-guidance-note-big-data-achievement-2030-agenda
Risks, Harms and Benefits Assessment Tool (UN Global Pulse, 2016, 2019)
Areas of Focus
- Big Data
- Artificial Intelliigence
- Machine learning
- Online testing and health records
Human Rights Issues
- Privacy
- Misuse of Data