This volume gathers seminal contributions that identify the boundaries of the various ethical dilemmas that have emerged in the field of big data research and proposes a set of guidelines for solving or preventing these dilemmas. The book discusses data collection and handling, theoretical and practical definitions of privacy, human and social costs of big data collection and analysis, the economic impact of ethical costs, political dimensions of big data ethics, ethical and unethical behavior in commercial utilization of big data. Of particular interest are new methodologies for handling and...