Data Ethics: Practical Strategies for Implementing Ethical Information Management and Governance
Katherine O’Keefe and Daragh O Brien, Kogan Page, 2023

With the pace of innovation and development in technology continuing to accelerate, data and information ethics have fast become a critical issue – for businesses, individuals and society as a whole.

As the authors of Data Ethics: Practical Strategies for Implementing Ethical Information Management and Governance, point out in their foreword, human beings have been gathering and recording information in written and pictographic forms for over 5,000 years, and the advent of modern technologies means that we are now recording more information in one year than in all of the preceding history.

“The challenge we now face,” they write, “is whether our love affair with technology and technological innovation may have left us ill-prepared for the various ethical and moral issues that the uses of that technology increasingly throw us on a day-to-day basis.”

Katherine O’Keefe works with Ireland’s national water utility, Uisce Éireann, and is on the teaching faculty of the Law Society of Ireland’s Diploma Centre. She has developed international professional accreditation schemes for information management, for which she was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award in 2017.

Daragh O Brien is the founder and managing director of data strategy consultancy, Castlebridge. He lectures in data protection and data governance in the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. He is also a founding member of the Strategic Advisory Board to the School of Business in Maynooth University.

Together, the authors provide a practical framework for the implementation of ethical principles into information management systems, showing readers how to assess the types of ethical dilemmas organisations might face as they become more data-driven.

An important book for our time – for risk professionals, AI developers, and teen coders alike.

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