Reassessing privacy, fairness and governance in the age of algorithms and the impact on society and institutions Online publication date: Wed, 09-Nov-2022
by Dhushy Thillaivasan; C.N. Wickramasinghe
International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), Vol. 7, No. 2, 2022
Abstract: While algorithms will play a central role in the future of business and society, there is a lack of awareness of the grave implications to fundamental human values and to institutions that are built around these values. Algorithms have already rendered the present framework of law and governance outdated. While new technologies have historically roiled societies with the privacy conundrum at times of great change, the ability to gather, analyse, and combine vast quantities of data from different sources using powerful algorithms, impose a significant challenge to the traditional notion of privacy and fairness, as never seen before. This paper elucidates the concepts of data and algorithms along with our current notions of privacy and fairness. It explores the multi-dimensional algorithmic challenges to our present notion of privacy and fairness and to institutions to which privacy and fairness are at their core. It also deliberates on safeguards and remedial actions being considered at present.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Data Science (IJDS):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook