Social & Ethical Impacts
Digital divide, computing bias, intellectual property, privacy, crowdsourcing, and citizen science
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🌍 Social & Ethical Impacts
Study the beneficial and harmful effects of computing: digital divide (access and equity), computing bias in algorithms and data, intellectual property (Creative Commons, open source, copyright), privacy and data collection (PII, tracking, GDPR), crowdsourcing and citizen science, legal and ethical concerns, and computing innovations that transform society.
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Digital divide, computing bias, intellectual property, privacy, crowdsourcing, and citizen science
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