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01 — Guided Learning Guide

Purpose: Build the Chapter 2 mental model before retrieval practice.

Chapter 2 is about responsible data handling across the lifecycle: procurement/obtainment, storage, management, interpretation, analysis, application, sharing/use and disposal. It is broader than privacy, security or legal compliance.

Read in this order

  1. Scope, business meaning & ethical principles
  2. Privacy principles & online-data ethics
  3. Six unethical-practice risk patterns
  4. Ethical culture, risk model & Governance
  5. Retrieval checklist & source map

Know cold

  • Three recurring ethical concerns: impact on people; potential for misuse; economic value/ownership.
  • Belmont-derived principles: Respect for Persons, Beneficence, Justice.
  • Menlo addition: Respect for Law and Public Interest.
  • “Legal” is not automatically “ethical.”
  • Six risk areas: Timing; Misleading Visualizations; Unclear Definitions/Invalid Comparisons; Bias; Transforming/Integrating Data; Obfuscation/Redaction.
  • Operating chain: Principle → Risk → Practice → Control.
  • Personal-data ethical-risk checkpoints: Population → Capture → Analysis → Results/Use.
  • Governance and legal counsel provide complementary oversight, but practitioners retain responsibility to recognize and raise ethical concerns.

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