Data Citizens: Why We All Care About Data Ethics

I'm not a data scientist, yet I still care about ethics in data science. I care about it for the same reason I care about civics: I'm not a lawyer or a legislator, but laws impact my life in a way that I want to understand well enough that I know how to navigate the civic landscape effectively. By analogy, data citizens are impacted by the models, methods, and algorithms created by data scientists, but they have limited agency to affect them. Data citizens must appeal to data scientists in order to ensure that their data will be treated ethically. Data science ethics is a new field and it may seem like we need to invent all the tools and methods we will need to build that field from scratch.