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The ethics of big data: current and foreseeable issues in biomedical contexts

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The capacity to collect and analyse data is growing exponentially. Referred to as 'Big Data', this scientific, social and technological trend has helped create destabilising amounts of information, which can challenge accepted social and ethical norms. Big Data remains a fuzzy idea, emerging across social, scientific, and business contexts sometimes seemingly related only by the gigantic size of the datasets being considered. As is often the case with the cutting edge of scientific and techno...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s11948-015-9652-2

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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Oxford Internet Institute
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
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Author
Publisher:
Springer Science + Business Media Dordrecht Publisher's website
Journal:
Science and Engineering Ethics Journal website
Volume:
22
Issue:
2
Pages:
303-341
Publication date:
2015-05-23
Acceptance date:
2015-05-13
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1471-5546
ISSN:
1353-3452
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English
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526395
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2016-05-25

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