What is Business Data Ethics Management?

The law, including privacy law, lags the rapid development of advanced analytics and AI. As a result, compliance with the law is not sufficient to protect individuals or society from the threats that corporate use of these technologies can create. To protect people against these risks, and so to safeguard their own reputations and live by their values, companies need to do more than the law requires. As the interviewees described it, business “data ethics” management consists of the ways in which a company determines how far it wants to go beyond legal minimums, and how it seeks to achieve this goal. As a result, data ethics in the current period is largely a question of beyond compliance principles and assessments, even as legal norms continue to evolve. The literature has described such beyond compliance behavior with respect to corporate environmental performance. This Book documents beyond compliance behavior with respect to business governance of advanced analytics and AI.