Health and Big Data: An Ethical Framework for Health Information Collection by Corporate Wellness Programs

Ifeoma Ajunwa¹, Kate Crawford¹, Joel S Ford¹

• ¹Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. She holds a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law (San Francisco, CA) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in the City of New York. Kate Crawford, Ph.D., is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia). Joel S. Ford, M.D., is an internal medicine resident at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio).