AAG launched a partnership with Esri, and the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, to develop an action plan for addressing the ethical issues surrounding geospatial data and technologies. The organizing committee is starting this effort by drawing together experts from academia, the private sector, and government, and will present a “GeoEthics Series”, which will consist of a series of webinars throughout 2021 to discuss many of the major ethical issues raised by locational information.
The following is an initial list of topics, but the organizing committee expects to refine and amend them in the coming months:
Surveillance: technical potential, biometrics, impacts on individuals, facial recognition
Labor and employment: surveillance in the workplace, regulation, best practices, fair dealings
Governance: alternative models, ties between private and public entities, regulation, data ownership, localization, open data/software
Geospatial analytics: artificial intelligence, prediction, generalizability, ecological fallacy, re-identification of anonymized data
See the latest List of Webinars organized by our committee, and visit us regularly to see any newly added webinars. Not all webinars will be recorded. Photos, videos, or audio recordings may not be taken during webinars without the permission of the presenter. Anyone doing so without permission will be asked to leave the webinar. Read about AAG policies here.
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