Young, Smith, Zheng / Call Me BIG PAPA Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems | Vol. 2020, Issue 2, July 2020 17 Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems Volume2020 | Issue 2 Article 3 Date: 07-31-2020 Call Me BIG PAPA: An Extension of Mason’s Information Ethics Framework to Big Data Jacob A. Young Bradley University, jayoung@fsmail.bradley.edu Tyler J. Smith Bradley University, tjsmith3@fsmail.bradley.edu Shawn H. Zheng Bradley University, hzheng@fsmail.bradley.edu Abstract In 1986, Richard Mason proposed the PAPA framework to address four ethical issues society would likely face in the information age: privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. In this paper, we propose an extension to the PAPA framework by appending three additional issues relevant to information ethics in the big data era. First, we outline the four components of Mason’s original PAPA. Second, we briefly review the major technological changes that have occurred since Mason proposed his framework. Third, we outline concepts relevant to the big data context. Fourth, we propose and discuss our extension by appending three ethical issues related to behavioral surveillance, interpretation, and governance to Mason’s original PAPA framework, forming BIG PAPA. Lastly, we discuss how these issues impact practice and how they can inform future research. Keywords: big data, ethics, privacy, security DOI: 10.17705/3jmwa.000059 Copyright © 2020 by Jacob A. Young, Tyler J. Smith, and Shawn H. Zheng