digital ethics by ECE EZGIN https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt en-us 2023-05-02 10:10:41 UTC 2023-05-23 12:03:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Digital ethics is the branch of ethics concerning the set of rules and moral guidelines that govern interpersonal behaviour between individuals and/or companies that is mediated by computer technology, either inside a company or, more broadly, in markets and society. 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601602595 2023-05-23 11:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601602595 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601603203 2023-05-23 11:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601603203 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601603846 2023-05-23 11:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601603846 This distinction is important, because what organisations can do with digital data – as opposed to what they ought to do – is already governed and restricted by rules and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This places a number of obligations on organisations that collect and use digital data about people, including: 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601604483 2023-05-23 11:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601604483 Asking for permission to collect and store data about usersAsking for permission to sell any personal data that has been storedGiving users the right to request that data about them is deletedGiving users access to personal data that has been collected and stored 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601604790 2023-05-23 11:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601604790 What are your digital expectations?Charities need to ask themselves some questions. Do service users who come to a charity expect their personal data to be sold to an advertiser even if they give permission for the charity to do so? Ought charities to raise funds by selling personal data supplied to them by people seeking help? Does the good that the funds generated by selling service users’ data outweigh any reservations a charity might have? What happens if the data sold to an advertiser is subsequently stolen and leaked by a hacker? 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601605068 2023-05-23 11:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601605068 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601605906 2023-05-23 11:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601605906 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601606554 2023-05-23 11:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601606554 Why is digital ethics important?Trust is a concept that is key to the charity sector because without trust charities cannot exist and thrive. That means that every charity has to have its own clear ethical standards which govern what it will and will not do, who it will and will not deal with, how it will and will not treat its service users, suppliers and partners, and so on. And, crucially, the charity has to uphold its ethical standards in order to earn the trust and support it needs to carry out its charitable activities. 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601607004 2023-05-23 12:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601607004 What frameworks exist for digital ethics? For any organisation, including a charity, building a code of digital ethics can be a daunting prospect. That’s because it can be hard to recognise which decisions about the use of digital technologies are – or should be – ethical ones. That’s where a simple digital ethics framework can help. In general terms, organisations can benefit from the following four principals of digital ethics: 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601607344 2023-05-23 12:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601607344 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601608177 2023-05-23 12:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601608177 What do you mean by digital journalism ethics? Just as digital ethics is concerned with how organisations ought to behave when it comes to digital technologies, journalism ethics is concerned with how journalists ought to behave while carrying out their journalism duties. Typical elements of journalism ethics include truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability. 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601608739 2023-05-23 12:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601608739 Over and above what is admissible from a legal perspective and what conforms to privacy regulations, digital ethics asks whether certain actions are the right thing to do. This encompasses actions such as collecting, connecting, or selling particular data sets, treating different groups of individuals differently due to vulnerabilities linked to their sociodemographic characteristics or other factors, or leading people to engage in addictive or otherwise unwise behaviours in the digital environment via technological nudges of various kinds by exploiting human weaknesses and biases. 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601609460 2023-05-23 12:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601609460 But how do we know what the right thing is? The philosophical answer points to the code of conduct governing your particular culture, industry, or belief group. Doctors, lawyers, and religious communities have sets of tenets that dictate behaviours that are acceptable and unacceptable and prescribe various types of punishments for deviating from these codes. However, such codes do not always exist in our professional lives. And when it comes to technology, these codes are often out of date. 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601609785 2023-05-23 12:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601609785 202208861 https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601610244 2023-05-23 12:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/202208861/amxtbg8fu9nq5mwt/wish/2601610244