Now is better than Never: What the Zen of Python can teach us about Data Ethics
summary
Argues that the Zen line Now is better than never means start fixing data harms now, not later, and shows concrete failures: automated moderation funnels content to third‑party reviewers who spend ~1 minute per item and suffer harm; Chicago’s predictive policing creates opaque threat scores (1–500+) shown to officers; ACLU finds Amazon Rekognition at an 80% default returns false matches disproportionately for people of color; proposes concrete fixes like the dataset nutrition label, Google’s data‑export idea and the Facets tool to inspect datasets.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12Why Care
- 3:05The Internet
- 4:55Data Ethics
- 7:22Obama for America
- 9:18Examples of Data Ethics
- 16:10Risks
- 19:08Threat Scores
- 23:58Code of Ethics
- 25:48Code of Conduct
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