Data science or in Dutch data science. This podcast is a series of three podcasts on data science with professors from Maastricht University and the Brightlands institute for smart society (BISS). Previous weeks we spoke with Rudolf Müller and Lisa Brüggen and today Gijs van Dijck, Professor of Private Law is our guest to close the series. With him we dive into the legal and ethical issues surrounding Data Science.
Gijs van Dijck is Professor is Private Law at Maastricht University. He has a legal background and did a lot of empirical research during his PhD with a specialization in network analysis. Currently, Gijs focuses from the BISS institute on projects with companies, in which Gijs is the expert on Legal and Ethical issues when using data science.
Data ethics
"How good is the quality of your data and how good are the conclusions you draw from it?" argues Gijs. A common misunderstanding is that data ethics, which involves a conscious consideration of how we want data to be allowed to be handled, prescribes a 'right' way of handling data. That we can make rules for 'proper' use and if an organization applies those rules they are 'doing good'. There are also downsides to data ethics, Gijs explains why.
Businesses and data science
Of course, there are already "off the shelf" products; the systems that have already been tested and you can take over just like that. But what is the problem with this? Do companies know what they are choosing? and what can go wrong? Gijs' main message: "the less you know the more critical you have to be." Listen to the podcast and find out why this a critical attitude is important and how to better assess it.
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