Ethics of Big Data: Is That a Thing?

How much “big data” should any enterprise be expected to absorb, monitor, analyze, and respond to? What happens, for example, when warning sign...

12/6/2022 3:30pm - 5:30pm  |  Online  |  CPA Crossings

$79.00

CPE Categories: Ethics (2 CPE)

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Description

How much “big data” should any enterprise be expected to absorb, monitor, analyze, and respond to? What happens, for example, when warning signs of possible product defects – or possible regulatory noncompliance issues – are "buried" in the flood of big data accessible by auto manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, banks or similar data-infused enterprises? This workshop takes on this issue by exploring several real-world cases involving the ethics of data-awareness. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Presented by Albert D. Spalding, JD, PhD, CPA, CFF

Instructor: Albert D. Spalding, JD, PhD, CPA/CFF

Target Audience

All accounting professionals.

Course Objectives

  • Be apprised to the expansion of Big Data within major industries, including COVID-related healthcare.
  • Differentiate between unintentional data breaches, such as security breaches, and such avoidable breaches as violation as violation of privacy protections.
  • Gain an understanding of privacy protection based on a theory of trust as opposed to rules-based or content-based approaches.
  • Review the trust-related elements of accountants' professional ethics.
  • Consider real world cases that bring to light ethical considerations involving Big Data.

Subjects

  • Introduction: Big Data is Getting Bigger
  • Ethical Implications of Big Data Getting Bigger
  • Ethics of Big Data: Three Theories
  • Trust Theory and the Duty to be Aware
  • Rules Theory and the Duty to Monitor
  • Cases