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I’ll be the first to admit it: If you’re looking for a perfect answer to the big data ethics dilemma, you’re not going to find it in this article — or any other article, for that matter. That’s because there is no perfect answer. If there were a perfect answer, an obvious answer, or an easy answer, we wouldn’t be facing a dilemma — there would be no gray area.
Perfect solution or not, in business, as in life, there are certain things we should and shouldn’t do. There are certain general standards to which we should hold ourselves and our companies, regardless of the fact that there may be no laws requiring us to do so, or that the principles behind them may not apply 100 percent of the time. There may be no perfect solution, but it is our responsibility to try nonetheless.
Read the complete article at: The Big Data Gray Area: Dos and Don’ts