Data Ethics
What is Data Ethics?
The branch of ethics that addresses the moral implications of data collection, processing, and use, including fairness, transparency, and accountability in data practices.
Frameworks that govern data ethics
What the standards actually require on data ethics
Requirements naming data ethics across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Data ethics policies are defined and approved for the whole organization; communication and training reinforce the Code of Data Ethics;
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::3.2.2 · 3.2.2 Data ethics processes are operational →Decide the level of technology investment from the agency's data needs and goals, using data governance to judge whether an emerging technology is worthwhile given the data quality it needs to be used safely;
australian-government-data-governance-framework-2025::4.6 · 4.6 Technology and emerging technologies →Analytic models are taken through a formal life cycle for model development that spans design, execution, validation and delivery, including large language models, to manage models effectively, run them in production and mitigate unintended bias, in line with...
edm-council-dcam-data-management-capability-assessment-model::8.5 · 8.5 Model Development Lifecycle →Questions people ask about data ethics
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