The Center for Data, Ethics, and Society officially launched addresses the ethical, social and political dimensions of an increasingly data-driven society.
Grounded in the university’s Catholic, Jesuit mission of social justice, the center will focus on confronting data ethics issues such as the controversies and consequences of our increasingly data-driven lives and spaces, unfair algorithmic biases, the unequal effects of computational decision-making, the privacy threats of ubiquitous surveillance systems, and the role for corporate social responsibility and accountability. The center will take up these concerns through an applied and interdisciplinary approach to research, pedagogy and community engagement.