Push Back on Unbounded Secondary Use
Practice steering a colleague from broad reuse of sensitive data toward a narrower, justified, and documented use.
Evan E People analytics lead Reuse proposal Evan wants to use employee wellness-survey data in a performance-risk model because the fields look predictive. The most dangerous step may be the quiet assumption that a useful field is also a justified field. Narrow before you approve Ask what the new decision is, what employees would expect, and whether a less sensitive route can achieve the aim. Weak move Treat availability as permission. You turn a vague no into a scoped alternative. Responsible data use asks for the minimum justified data, not the maximum predictive data. Open Evan says, 'The wellness scores…
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