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Data Ethics

With insurance becoming increasingly digital, data ethics has become the key lens through which issues and challenges are emerging. What makes it particularly important is how it is influencing insurance at both the policy and the market levels.
217 posts
Data Ethics
Data Ethics • 2 min read

Exploitation in Data Supply Chains

Insurers may have data provenance as part of their data ethics programme, but have they scoped it correctly? An often overlooked aspect of data ethics has recently received media attention. It deals with an age old problem in supply chains – how labour is managed and remunerated.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Moving from Healthcare Data to Lifestyle Data public
Underwriting • 3 min read

Moving from Healthcare Data to Lifestyle Data

With the EU proposing to ban the secondary use of electronic health data for insurance purposes, the sector was always going to be looking for other ways to rate life and health risk. And a recent paper by an executive at Swiss Re illustrates gives some insight into how this is being addressed.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Sentiment Analysis – Treat with Caution public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Sentiment Analysis – Treat with Caution

The increase in remote working triggered by the pandemic caused Zoom to become a popular tool for holding meetings and speaking with clients. Now Zoom is to allow account holders to carry out sentiment analysis on those they are engaging with. I explore what it means for insurers.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Is Open Data Compatible with Insurance? public
Underwriting • 4 min read

Is Open Data Compatible with Insurance?

There’s a lot of upbeat talk about how open data could revolutionise insurance. The seamless exchange of data and cover seems so simple. Yet dig around a bit and contradictions emerge. Are the principles of open data and insurance underwriting sufficiently in sync? It’s an open question.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence? public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence?

A key question for insurers over the next 5 years will be how regulators handle the issues raised by their increasing use of algorithms. The message being signalled in a recent paper by the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum is clear. And the position they’re taking will be an uncomfortable one.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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