Privacy and Ethical Impact Assessment

Abstract

The development and deployment of new information and communications technologies and applications fuelled by the use of personal information may raise not only privacy concerns, but also ethical issues. In this chapter, we propose and describe an ethical impact assessment framework (EIA), which could complement a privacy impact assessment. Indeed, the two forms of impact assessment could be carried out concurrently. Like a PIA, an EIA could be used as a way to ensure ethical implications are adequately examined by stakeholders before deployment so that mitigating measures can be taken as necessary.