Ethics in Computing
summary
Computing grows from a 25-year industry to something that touches billions without domain-specific ethical enforcement, so engineers build defeat devices like the VW emissions cheat, deploy evasion tools like Greyball and publish a Strava heatmap that exposes secret bases; biometric sensors fail darker skin and license clauses like the Commons Clause change open‑source use. The ACM issues a revised 2018 code of ethics, IEEE provides a dissent guide, and concrete steps urged are diverse teams, recordkeeping, and dispassionate, documented objections.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Ethics in Computing
- 13:02VW Emissions
- 15:00Uber Greyball
- 18:44Uber Autonomous Vehicle Operation
- 21:18Strava Global Heatmap
- 24:39Technical Concepts Hand Soap Dispenser
- 30:18Software Licensing
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