Smallman, Melanie;
O'Donovan, Cian;
Wilson, James;
Hume, Jack;
(2024)
Data ethics in an emergency.
In: Redhead, Caroline and Smallman, Melanie, (eds.)
Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making: The pandemic and beyond.
(pp. 77-93).
Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK.
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Abstract
Has data ethics been a casualty of COVID-19? Data have played a central role in how we understand, mitigate and adapt to COVID-19. For instance, it was critical to the work of new public infrastructures such as vaccine certification systems and test and trace infrastructures. Aggregated data about individuals provided the basis for priority shielding lists that protect people deemed vulnerable to COVID-19, and also remade the very categories of vulnerability on which decisions to recommend or enforce their shielding and isolation depended. But what happens in emergencies when urgency trumps careful deliberation? In this chapter, we aim to understand how ethics advice featured in decision-making and the governance arrangements of data use in such situations, arguing that a set of ‘emergency data ethics’ are needed to help guide thinking in a future emergency.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Data ethics in an emergency |
| ISBN-13: | 9781526180056 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.7765/9781526180056.00011 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526180056.00011 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access chapter published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183428 |
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