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The digital revolution provides huge opportunities to improve private and public life, and our environments, from health care to smart cities and global warming. Unfortunately, such opportunities come with significant ethical challenges. In particular, the extensive use of increasingly more data—often personal, if not sensitive (Big Data)—the growing reliance on algorithms to analyse them in order to shape choices and to make decisions (including machine learning, AI, and robotics), and the gradual reduction of human involvement or oversight over many automatic processes, pose pressing questions about fairness, responsibility, and respect of human rights.
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European Parliament, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. (2012). On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individual with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (COM(2012)0011 – C7-0025/2012-2012/0011(COD)). Amendments 27, 327, 328, and 334–3367 proposed in the Albrecht’s Draft Report, Retrieved from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/pr/922/922387/922387en.pdf
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Floridi, L., Cath, C., Taddeo, M. (2019). Digital Ethics: Its Nature and Scope. In: Öhman, C., Watson, D. (eds) The 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab. Digital Ethics Lab Yearbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17152-0_2
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