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The Emerging Applications and Social Statistics Sections are organising a
joint Section meeting on 18th June, in Manchester. The meeting will run run
11am-4pm in the Bridgeford St Building of Manchester University, with lunch
provided.

In January, the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) organised a
meeting on Creating Research Data Policy
<https://ncrm.ac.uk/research/WP4/WP4Workshop.php>. Due to interest from
members, the RSS sponsored the meeting, and is organising this meeting with
NCRM to follow up some further issues.

The meeting will consider the evolving ethics of research using emerging
data, from several diferent perspectives. Data types have emerged from
administration and linkage processes, as well as genetics. Ethical
processes have evolved from legal access and privacy processes to
considering public benefit and group stigmatisation. Consent for complex
and novel uses presents challenges for alternative methods of public
deliberation.

Discussion about ethics such as the Data Manifesto proposed council for
data ethics have been dominated by AI and the private sector. This will be
an opportunity to consider statistical issues and the role for the RSS in
making sure these are heard.

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