Module Three: Data security

What are the potential dangers when working with data and how do we protect everyone?

Topics

• Data protection
• Copyright & licences
• Protecting data
• Data protection as a beat
• Ethical data journalism

Learning

• TASK: Data protection quiz
• TASK: Read two accounts of anonymity and reporting
  • BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism)
  • Sandy Hook shooting and gun permits

Practice

• Secure data assignment

Reading

• Chalabi, Mona. Mapping kidnappings in Nigeria. 538, 2014
• Glanville, Jo. The journalistic exemption (Data Protection Act). LRB, 2018
• Harford, Tim. How to make the world add up: chapter 1
• ICO. Data protection and journalism, a quick guide. 2014-2018
• ICO. Register of data controllers & Enforcement record & Enforcement trends
• Microsoft. Protection & security in Excel
• ONS. Guide to experimental statistics
• Smith, Alan. How to navigate data’s pink and blue problem. FT, 2018

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Resources

• Summary of online workshop
• Datasets by topic (Jomec)
• Google drive

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