CDEP case studies
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The Certified Data Ethics Professional (CDEP) is a credential name associated with CertNexus, a certification body whose catalog also includes business-oriented and practitioner-level credentials across cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, data science, and data ethics. CertNexus organizes its data ethics offerings under a DATA ETHICS heading alongside DEBIZ™ and the Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist® (CEET). The CDEP case studies are 5 cases and about 4,595 words.
1The Sheriff, the Census Block, and the Overdose Data
A 23-bed critical access hospital sits in a county of 61,000 people. Over 18 months its emergency department logged 4,812 overdose-related visits.
919 words, about 5 min2Pausa: A Mood App, an Insurer, and a Four-Second Consent Screen
Pausa is a free mood-tracking app with 2.1 million users; 16% are under 18. Users log daily mood, sleep, medication adherence, and free-text journal entries.
867 words, about 4 min3Nine Days of Exposure, Three Clocks, One Ransom Note
At 14:05 on a Tuesday, a security researcher emails Northwind Payroll, a SaaS provider serving 1,900 small employers, reporting an unauthenticated endpoint at /api/v1/exports that returns full employee records when given a sequential integer. The researcher supplies 40 sample records containing names, Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers, and 2023 W-2 wage data.
936 words, about 5 min4TalentRank: Advisory in Name, Determinative in Practice
Meridian Logistics hires about 4,100 people a year into warehouse and last-mile delivery roles. Since March it has used TalentRank, a third-party resume-screening model, to rank applicants; recruiters then interview from the top 200 per requisition.
942 words, about 5 min5Ada at the Contact Center: Credit Reports in the Prompt Window
Cornerstone Bank has deployed "Ada," a vendor-hosted LLM assistant, to 900 contact-center agents. Agents paste customer context into the prompt window: account numbers, transaction histories, and occasionally full credit reports.
931 words, about 5 min