Big data and the Facebook scandal: Issues and responses

Michael Fuller

doi:10.1177/0040571X18805908

Big data and the Facebook scandal: Issues and responses

Michael Fuller

School of Divinity

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The recent scandal over the appropriation of users’ data from the Facebook platform serves to surface wider concerns about ‘big data’, relating inter alia to the ways in which personal data are obtained, stored and used for commercial purposes. This paper outlines some of the issues involved, and sketches some of the ways in which theologically-inspired reflection and action might begin to address those issues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-21
Number of pages	8
Journal	Theology
Volume	122
Issue number	1
Early online date	21 Dec 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X18805908
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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big data
consent
cybercrime
data brokerage
ethics
hermeneutics
privacy

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The final version of this paper has been published in Theology, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © Michael Fuller, 2018. It is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0040571X18805908
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