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Case Study 12 Pizza and Big Data A California newspaper has a data dilemma. To understand both sides of the dilemma, we provide a little history with names changed to protect privacy. In 2013, Sarah Smith was brutally raped outside Corleone's Pizzeria in Bakersfield. As would be expected, the local newspaper, the Bakersfield Examiner, ran a number of stories about the event over the next 6 months as investigators worked on the crime and charged the suspect and a court convicted him. In virtually every story, the name of the pizzeria and the name of the alleged criminal were frequently mentioned Now, five years later, Corleone's Pizzeria has asked the newspaper to remove the pizzeria's name from the articles about the incident that are still available on the newspaper's Web site. Michael Corleone, the owner, has realized that when his restaurant is Googled, the top three returns have headlines about the rape, not the restaurant. He claims this is unfair to his restaurant that had no responsibility for the crime. The rape, not the restaurant, appears in search results for the restaurant because many other newspapers and Web articles about the crime link to the Examiner's reports that include the name of the pizzeria. Ryan Jones, the editor of the newspaper, is concerned about the impact of removing the location data. The rape did in fact occur very near that restaurant. If he removes the name, and another rape occurs and investigators find that the location was a factor - perhaps the lighting is poor or the neighborhood is dangerous he will regret removing the location and the warning about potential danger contained in the location data. He also feels he is committed to being a source of facts for the public record. Now and in the future, many reporters and criminal experts will want to read the details of the investigation, perhaps sparking new insights about other crimes. Further, if he decides to remove this information, does he remove all stories about the rape or just the location? What about all the other crime locations his paper has chronicled? Does he remove them after a period? Or does he make some other rule-perhaps based on the severity of the crime? He also considers just removing the restaurant name but leaving the address. All these ideas conjure up challenges in his mind about how to be fair to everyone. Also, what about the criminals? Every time a criminal's name is Googled, should their crimes be shown? Forever? In addition to concerns about businesses, maybe criminals have a right to be forgotten at some point. The dilemma for the newspaper persists. Remove the name and significantly help the individual restaurant; keep the restaurant name and help society in a minor way. Is fact accuracy more important than how that fact is used by the public? What would you do as the paper editor? As Bl tools allow the paper editor as well as the rest of us to record more and more data and the power to sift through it, these new questions arise. The editor is also the owner of a radio station. During a recent fire, his reporter described a major road near the fire as being open, even though the reporter knew the local fire department declared it closed to vehicle traffic. The reporter wanted residents near the road to know that it was in fact available for evacuation, but the fire department wanted exclusive use of the road to move firefighters and equipment; as it turns out, the department's ability to fight the fire was reduced due to the traffic caused by the radio station's report. The state's firefighting agencies contacted the station owner and requested that the station in the future only report the official road closures. Just as in the pizzeria dilemma, Mr. Jones faces a data issue-is accuracy of data more important than how it is used? 1. Is the pizzeria owner right to ask the newspaper to modify the stories? Support your