The featured resources for the month of April showcase curated news, articles, events, and blogs relevant to research data management.
New Data will give insight into Facebook's influence on elections
Facebook is giving social scientists unprecedented access to its data so that they can investigate how social-media platforms can influence elections and alter democracies. To read in detail, click here.
Safeguards for human studies can't cope with big data
Data science can aggregate publicly available data to create and classify new groups of individuals. That can pose threats to privacy, security and dignity.Two new types of group data are inappropriately exempted in some cases by current guidelines of ethics. The first is demographically identifiable information — data that allow inferences to classify, identify or track people (named or unnamed) or groups of people according to ethnicity, economic class, religion, gender, occupation, health status or other combinations of factors. The second is action-based information, such as mobile-device data that reveal time and place-specific behavior. To read in detail, click here.
Data protection is social protection
In recent decades, social assistance programs around the world have been strengthened to the point that they now benefit more than 2.5 billion people, usually the poorest and most vulnerable. But rising pressure to apply biometric technology to verify beneficiaries’ identities, and to integrate information systems ranging from civil registries to law-enforcement databases, means that social programs could create new risks for those who depend on them. To read in detail, click here.
Nigeria issues new data protection regulation
In January 25, 2019, Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (“NITDA”) issued the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (the “Regulation”). Many concepts of the Regulation mirror the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). To read in detail, click here.
Springer Nature proposes five essential factors to accelerated data sharing
Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing, published by Springer Nature today, translates findings about researcher attitudes and behaviours into concrete measures that will accelerate data sharing. To read in detail, click here.