Are all ethical considerations for the data scientist already subsumed by a blend of other professional disciplines and Information Security (INFOSEC)?
I can see that many ethical dilemmas will be related to INFOSEC or corporate espionage and data privacy. While ethical questions could be pushed off to other sites, is there a place for those questions here? Does the exploitation of big data create for us any professional responsibility?
I would argue that we do have professional responsibilities, but many of those have to do with our concepts of privacy, ownership especially information ownership, and public welfare. And since these concepts are highly dependent upon our cultural upbringing, I wanted to invite discussion on this topic to expose those things that myself and others may be taking for granted because of uncritical cultural biases.
If we do have our own professional code of ethics (even if in the making), where do these unique responsibilities and concerns originate from?
If our concerns are not terribly unique, then is there something remarkable in the collection of concerns that occur regularly for data scientists that warrants expounding or codifying?
A question of scope
If there are ethical considerations that are unique or are more than just the sum of other disciplines, then I would propose that questions about ethics are on-topic for this site.
If questions about {ethics} is on-topic, does it need its own tag? And/or should we adjust the site's help page?
However, if the prevailing opinion is that there is nothing really specific to the ethics of data science that warrants separate treatment - then we can determine such posts to be off-topic.