Ethics of Collecting Mobility Data

Topics

This week’s assignments will guide you through the following topics:

• Ethics of collecting mobility data

Reading

Please read the following:

• Read Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

Replication task

• Make sure you’ve completed your model build for the heart data and finalized the writing from this that will be added to the Q2 proposal.
• Write your Q2 elevator pitch and work on your Q2 proposal.

Weekly Questions

Answer the following questions

• What surprised you most about the Unique in the Crowd paper?
• What are potential policies you’d like to see in place to protect privacy concerns addressed here while maintaining the ability to use the data for research?