7.7 - Ethical Issues around Data Collection

• 7.7: Ethical issues around Data Collection
  • Learning Objectives:
  • Essential Knowledge:
    • Privacy Protection:

7.7: Ethical issues around Data Collection

Learning Objectives:

• Explaining the risks of privacy from collecting and storing personal data on computer systems.

Essential Knowledge:

• When using the computer, personal privacy is at risk. Programmers should attempt to safeguard personal privacy.

Privacy Protection:

• A simple way to protect privacy is to delete personal user info after done using it.
• Another way is to minimize the amount of data used by the program in order to protect privacy.
• Anonymizing personal data via the object method hashCode() is another way.