"As an ethical data scientist concerned with both security and privacy, you are careful not to extract any personally identifiable information from the database. All the information in the CSV file is anonymized, and cannot be traced back to any specific customer."
Honest question - is this really necessary and applicable in this scenario? We're talking about a full time employee accessing company data, presumably with any necessary permissions, to generate insights for internal consumption within the company about its customers?
Yes, it is. Full time employees usually work on their laptops, which can be stolen or hacked especially when they're outside work. Ultimately, people and culture are usually the weakest links in security.
Two differences between a data scientist at the capability level of someone reading this article in earnest at a SV startup and an enterprise company in most of the rest of the country are cost of living and the assumption that moving past step two is a question of one person's independent ethical decisions
Honest question - is this really necessary and applicable in this scenario? We're talking about a full time employee accessing company data, presumably with any necessary permissions, to generate insights for internal consumption within the company about its customers?