Developing and Teaching a Framework for Ethical Data Harvesting within the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm

As organizations increasingly rely on analytics to drive decision making, the unregulated use of publicly accessible data has become commonplace. Often, this data is used without explicit consent, testing legal and ethical boundaries. While these practices may not breach the law, they raise important moral questions. This paper explores the ethical challenges of data harvesting by individuals and/or organizations, which often operate in a gray area between legality and morality. Drawing on Ignatian values, our paper proposes a framework for ethical data harvesting. By aligning the discussion with the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), this paper provides a strategy for teaching ethical data practices in a way that respects both the evolving landscape of data harvesting and the moral imperatives of a Jesuit education.