Legal, ethical, and social issues of data science

- [Instructor] Data science can make you feel … like a superhero … who's here to save the world … or at least your business's world. … But an alarming amount of data work … can also end up in court … or on the wrong side of a protest … so I want to talk about a few things … that can help keep you, your company … and your data science work on the up and up. … First, there are some important legal issues. … Now it used to be when data science first came about, … you know, oh, 10 years ago, … we were kind of in the Wild West … and people just kind of did what they wanted … but now we've had some major developments … in the legal frameworks that govern data and its use. … Probably the most important of these … is an entire collection of privacy laws, … the most significant of which at the moment … is the GDPR, that's the European Union's … General Data Protection Regulation. … This is a law about privacy … that has some very serious teeth. … It can potentially have fines of billions … of dollars for companies …