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s4h-ethics-data-audit
Audit a data collection, retention, or sharing decision against ethical standards. Use when the user is making decisions about what data to collect, how long to keep it, who can access it, or who it's shared with. TRIGGERS: 'audit this data decision', 'is this data practice ok', 'data ethics check', any change to data models, privacy controls, analytics instrumentation, data sharing agreements, or retention policies. Goes beyond legal compliance — evaluates whether the practice is ethical, not just lawful.
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# Ethics Data Audit
Legal compliance sets the floor. This audit asks whether your data practices clear a higher bar: are they *ethical*?
The distinction matters. GDPR-compliant practices can still be extractive. Lawful data collection can still violate trust. This audit evaluates data decisions through two lenses that legal frameworks tend to underweight: **deontological** (what do users have a right to, regardless of what the terms allow?) and **care ethics** (what do you owe the people whose data you hold, given the relationship and the vulnerability involved?).
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## Your Process
**Step 1: Define the data practice**
What data is being collected, retained, shared, or used? Be specific: what fields, what volume, what purpose, who can access it, how long is it kept, where does it go?
**Framing check:** Confirm the specific data practice before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual data being handled, its stated purpose, and the decision or change under review — in one sentence, then use `AskUserQuestion`: