A couple of thoughts about the features of Russian Data Science

Today at Moscow Data Science Major talked about privacy, ethical Data Science, and many interesting technical innovations. People listened attentively, asked questions, thanked. But what happened later was very significant. About this under the cut.

And then there was a report about the new Russian developments on NLP with this slide.



The only amendment that I made to him by publishing here is the gray fields that closed the name, surname, name and address of a living person. A person whose personal data and medical secrets were so calmly and routinely revealed to a thousand people who were not burdened with any non-disclosure agreements.

And the worst thing is not even the fact that at the same time a number of federal laws were violated (No. 323, Article 13 and No. 152, at a minimum). The worst thing, in my opinion, is that almost no one saw anything unexpected or bad about it ...

I really want to believe that I am wrong, and the author changed the names and address of this person, but the likelihood of this is small - both the clinic and the aforementioned doctor actually exist and work in St. Petersburg. And on this slide, by pure chance, there were no records of MY conversations with the operators of this very popular clinic in St. Petersburg ...

I do not think that anything like this could happen in countries with more mature Data Science in the west and, most likely, in the east. And even the most modern methods and technologies will not be able to help us until we ourselves grow up and begin to treat with respect the people who have entrusted us, often even unconsciously, an important part of their personal life ...