Technological Empowerment and Ethical Constraints: Constructing a Data Governance Framework for Smart Community Elderly Care Services

Abstract

Against the backdrop of healthy aging, smart community elderly care services have made remarkable progress through technological empowerment. However, they have also given rise to ethical issues such as privacy violations in data collection, security risks in data storage, algorithmic discrimination in data use, and unclear data ownership in data sharing. This paper aims to construct a data governance framework based on information ethics and privacy protection theory. It adheres to the principles of legality, fairness, security, transparency, and accountability, clarifies the goals of safeguarding data rights and improving service quality, identifies the government, service providers, community organizations, the elderly, and their families as governance subjects, and establishes a governance mechanism covering the entire process of data collection, storage, use, and sharing. Meanwhile, it proposes implementation paths through technological safeguards, ethical reviews, and the improvement of laws, regulations, and supervision to achieve the coordination of technology and ethics and promote the healthy development of smart community elderly care services.