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		mr_toad on April 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors A lot of sensitive data processing isn’t done by engineers or developers, it’s done by data scientists, statisticians and economists. How do they plan to handle that?

disgruntledphd2 on April 24, 2019 [–]

Statisticians and social scientists already have ethical codes and are trained in research ethics throughout their academic careers.

Speaking as a social scientist, i was shocked at how little of this made it into industry.

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