Data Literacy ~ Data Ethics

Data Ethics

The knowledge that allows a person to acquire, use, interpret and share data in an ethical manner including recognizing legal and ethical issues (e.g., biases, privacy) (Statistics Canada, 2020).

Be able to use the informed consent, be able to protect individuals’ data privacy, confidentiality, integrity and security, be able to apply authorship, ownership, data access (governance), re-negotiation and data-sharing (Learn2Analyze, 2017).

Relevant Links

These links are typically articles defining data literacy that include this theme in their definition.


, Canada.ca, 2021;, Statistics Canada, Canada.ca, 2020;, Open Data Institute, 2020;, Apolitical, 2021;, Learn2Analyze, 2017;, Chantel Ridsdale, et.al., Dalhousie University, 2015;, Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Jose J. Cavero Montaner, Umar Rashid, Gerd Kortuem, 2016;, Helena Sternkopf, Roland M. Mueller, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018;, Andreas Grillenberger, Ralf Romeike, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2018;

Force:yes