Key Points
A recent case filed against Facebook’s unethical use of data and improper handling of data brings forth a new concern for prominent internet users and social media. The failure Facebook had to face regarding the check of political extremism, wilful disinformation, and conspiracy theories came on the road when these concerns caused national movements, strikes, and violence. People even proposed to have executives imprisoned. These issues are mere examples of how important it is for the storage domain of data to be unethical and set upon a core basis of censorship.
Decentralized Data Storage
The decentralization of data storage systems has recently become the preference for most users. Taking these data leaks and Facebook breach scandals into consideration, the decentralized way of data storage and analysis seems to have loopholes that are often ignored and not paid enough heed. Since technology is state-of-the-art, developers are still trying to pay attention and solve the problems it poses.
Even though researchers are trying their best to develop a fool-proof, highly secure domain in the decentralized network to gain the trust of huge industries and big companies that are not yet prepared to risk their data in the decentralized system and it getting lost in the web, leaking or being forged since it lacks accountability for mishandled or misplaced data.
Issues Regarding Ethics at a Rise
Since this kind of technology is only emerging right now, detectable performance issues become the reason to hold people back from becoming a part of it. The topic of discussion has been revolving around ethics since the 1980s, yet the common feature of ethics is still non-existent in data science. Particularly privacy rights, data validity, and algorithm fairness in the areas of Big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are the most important ethical challenges that are in dire need of deep and thorough investigation.
Although the ethical issues were to have been paid attention to from the start, as we implement the resolutions provided by the AI-powered tools, the concern raises its value in human life. Proper investigation is required in the technological field. The idea of ethics involves not only human rights but also the rights of data, which are derived directly from people. This abundance of information should be handled in a way that gives birth to a greater good, not destruction and sociological and psychological manipulation.
