Big Data Is Getting Bigger. So Are the Privacy and Ethical Questions.

Manuela Ekowo and Iris Palmer's policy paper The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education was mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I’m not the first to ask questions like this. A couple of years ago, a group of educators organized by Martin Kurzweil of Ithaka S+R and Mitchell Stevens of Stanford University issued a series of guidelines for colleges and companies to consider as they began to embrace data analytics. Among other principles, the guidelines highlighted the importance of being transparent about how the information is used, and ensuring that institutions’ leaders really understand what companies are doing with the data they collect. Experts at New America weighed in too.