The House of Commons ethics committee is calling on the health minister to explain the Public Health Agency of Canada's collection of data from millions of mobile phones to understand travel ...

Google and Facebook are discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic.

Is it ethical for a big-data company to "harvest" personalities online? Why, or why not?

Data is everywhere, collected and used in increasingly large quantities by individuals and organizations. Those who have conducted research may be familiar with the Belmont Report, but ethical data ...

Citizen science projects engage individual volunteers or groups to observe, measure, and contribute data to scientific studies. CENS is building a collection of mobile phone and web-based tools to ...

Cellular location data could help authorities fight the coronavirus. But gaining access to this data, even amid a global pandemic, is made more complex by the legal and ethical issues surrounding ...