What is it about?
Cutting-edge tech provides endless possibilities for data collection through digital citizen science projects. The recent introduction of Lidar to everyday technological devices, including Apple's iPad, offers big opportunities, but also raises big ethical challenges.
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Why is it important?
Data protection and ethics in citizen science are under-explored issues. Citizens often use new technologies without realising how their data may be used against them later.
Perspectives
The discussion of data protection and digital ethics in citizen science introduced in this paper continues in later work on Shadow Footprints.
Estelle Clements
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This page is a summary of: Tech, ethics and the digital citizen, Geoscientist, November 2020, Geological Society,
DOI: 10.1144/geosci2020-116.
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