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5. “Do No Harm” in the Age of Big Data: Data, Ethics, and the Refugees

verfasst von : Patrick Vinck, Phuong N. Pham, Albert Ali Salah

Erschienen in: Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Leveraging call detail records for humanitarian analysis involves the collection and sharing of a large set of behavioral data, from hundreds of thousands of people. There is a risk that such data could be misused for surveillance and suppression, and there are strong criticisms that have been leveled at efforts involving call detail records. The D4R Challenge is not immune to these criticisms, and during the design and implementation of the challenge, these issues were discussed at length. This chapter outlines these issues and how they were (imperfectly) addressed.

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Fußnoten
1
As mentioned in Chap. 1, while Turkey is party to the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, it does not grant Syrian refugees the legal status of “refugee,” but considers them “temporarily protected foreign individuals”. This complicates the rights Syrian refugees have from a legal point of view, where they cannot benefit from the internationally established measures of protection. See Chap. 6 for definitions of the key terms.
 
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See Chap. 1 of this volume.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
“Do No Harm” in the Age of Big Data: Data, Ethics, and the Refugees
verfasst von
Patrick Vinck
Phuong N. Pham
Albert Ali Salah
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_5

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