Ensuring Security of Data and Information Flow in Emergency Response Decision Support

Harvested social media data has the potential to enhance emergency response decision support if its reliability can be assessed. We are working on an EU-FP7 project called Slándáil (Project No. 607691). Slándáil aims to develop a prototype system which automates social media data analysis for emergency response. This paper considers some of the ethical concerns that may arise with such alternate use of data. It offers technical (hardware and software) and operational measures intended to improve the security of data and information flow to mitigate those risks.