LESSON 2019 IS ONE AND A HALF DAY WORKSHOP ON LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
OF CROWDSOURCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION. The legal and ethical
dimensions of crowdsourcing in general are debated among scholars and
researchers. At present only limited work exists in the specific
context of CGI (Crowdsourced Geographic Information). Some GI
scientists and legal scholars have specifically discussed the legal
issues in using crowdsourcing for geospatial information ( 1
[https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO086205], 2
[https://doi.org/10.5334/bbf.f], 3
[http://onlinelibrarv.wilev.com/doi/10.1111/i.1541-0064.2012.00444.x/pdf%20accessed%20on%2015/03/2014], 4
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14498596.2018.1429330?journalCode=tjss20]).
One of the major attractions of CGI is that from the desks and the
laboratories of researchers there are now large, complex and rich
datasets available for analysis from a variety of platforms. Personal
information, collected as CGI, now creates data linkages between
individuals, devices, and organizations. When the spatial and
geographical aspects of these datasets and information streams are
explored new knowledge can be extracted. With the ubiquitous adoption
of smartphones and social media, the awareness of the value of
personal "big data" has increased, as well as large-scale web data
collection by many companies. The regulatory landscape have also
evolved, notably with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR), implemented from May 2018. However, researchers and scientists
involved in CGI often operate in gray areas without clear guidelines.
This applies particularly to secondary data usage (such as data
produced for another purpose). Other disciplines have a clear
ethical/legal framework (health/biomedical research) ( 5
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7427629],6
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2009.07.005],7
[https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/clinical-research]).
GIScience/data science has not produced recognised guidelines. This
workshop will bring together researchers, academics, industry
specialists, legal and ethics scholars to discuss and understand the
most prevalent legal and ethical issues in Crowdsourced Geographic
Information.
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