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diff --git a/wiki/ethics/musings.md b/wiki/ethics/musings.md index e41276b..b9a899b 100644 --- a/wiki/ethics/musings.md +++ b/wiki/ethics/musings.md @@ -50,27 +50,27 @@ for society. ## Integrity is not about contracts or legislation Ethics, personal integrity, and group integrity are tangled together, but -modern Western conceptions of group integrity tend to revolve around "does -this group break the law or engender lawsuits," not "does this group act in -the best interests of people outside of it." +modern Western conceptions of group integrity tend to revolve around “does +this group break the law or engender lawsuits,” not “does this group act in +the best interests of people outside of it.” ## Assumptions -I've embedded some of my personal morality into the "ethics" articles in this +I've embedded some of my personal morality into the “ethics” articles in this section, in the absence of a published moral code. Those, obviously, aren't absolute, but you can reason about their validity if you assume that I -believe the "end user's" privacy and active consent take priority over the +believe the “end user's” privacy and active consent take priority over the technical cleverness or business value of a software system. ### Consent and social software -This has some complicated downstream effects: "active consent" means +This has some complicated downstream effects: “active consent” means something you can't handwave away by putting implied consent (for example, to future changes) in an EULA or privacy statement. I haven't written much that calls out this pattern because it's _pervasive_. -The "end user is the real product" business model most social networks +The “end user is the real product” business model most social networks operate on is fundamentally unethical under this code. It will always be more -valuable to the "real customers" (advertisers, analytics platforms, law +valuable to the “real customers” (advertisers, analytics platforms, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies) for users to be opted into new measurements by default, _assuming_ consent rather than obtaining it. |