PERVADE Data Ethics Tool

What is the data ethics tool?

The PERVADE Data Ethics Decision Support Tool was created by the PERVADE research team as a product of a long-term project focused on empirical questions in data ethics. A major finding of the project is that, when it comes to delineating ethical data collection and use, the answer is almost always it depends.  

Ethical data use depends on the contexts and tools of data collection, the awareness and expectations of data subjects, decisions made about storage, analysis, and sharing, and your own positionality as a researcher. 

This tool is designed to walk you through those many factors, and to refer you to resources to help you make informed decisions about the many complex factors that shape data research ethics.

Who is it for?

The PERVADE Data Ethics Decision Support Tool is designed for academic data science researchers, which might include researchers doing things like: 

• ✓ Digital health and digital mental health

• ✓ Sensing research

• ✓ Social media research

• ✓ Text mining & NLP

• ✓ ML/AI development

To help you get familiar with the factors that matter most to ethical data use

To help you find relevant resources to guide your research

To help you find relevant resources to guide your research