Author(s)

Yineng Xiao ^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹ The Global Intellectual Property Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 215163, China
² Advanced Institute of Information Technology, Peking University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311200, China

Corresponding Author

Yineng Xiao

ABSTRACT

Human society has quietly entered the era of big data. While big data technology has brought positive changes to society in many aspects, its brutal growth and extensive use have also brought a series of ethical dilemmas to people's privacy protection. The ethical dilemmas of privacy protection in the era of big data include: data mining and integration of privacy information, data prediction and presentation of privacy information, data monitoring and transparency of privacy information, data sharing and proliferation of privacy information, etc. The ethical dilemma of privacy protection in the era of big data is mainly caused by the negative effect of science and technology, the correlation of wealth creation, the lag of the regulation mechanism, and the fluidity of privacy concept. The basic approaches to address the ethical dilemma of privacy protection in the era of big data include: reconstructing the ethics of science and technology to promote the unification of instrumental rationality and value rationality; improving the ethics of institutions to promote the unification of the rule of law and industry self-regulation; reducing the risk of surveillance to promote the unification of informed consent and outcome control; and constructing the ethics of responsibility to promote the unification of rights and obligations.

KEYWORDS

Big data; privacy protection; ethics of technology; institutional ethics; ethics of responsibility

CITE THIS PAPER

Yineng Xiao, The Formation Mechanism of Ethical Dilemmas of Privacy Protection in the Era of Big Data and Its Governance. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2024) Vol. 6: 176-180. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2024.060124.

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