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LIDA Seminar Series 26th January 2017

Category
LIDA Seminar
Date
Date
Thursday 26 January 2017, 3:30pm - 6pm
Location
Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Level 11, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Clarendon Way, Leeds, LS2 9NL
External URL
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lida-seminar-big-data-and-ethics-tickets-30351582400
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We were pleased to welcome Baroness Onora O’Neill as our main speaker for this LIDA Seminar.

Baroness O’Neill is a philosopher and crossbench member of the House of Lords, and president of the Society for Applied Philosophy and Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Baroness O’Neill’s talk titled “Data ethics and the ethics of communication” covered topics including communicative acts vs communicative content, data protection, informed consent and privacy.

There were also talks from Dr Fistein and Professor Chris Megone, Professor of Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds.