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Re:The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) by cpeterso on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:01PM (#23969331)
The ACM has an "Ask an Ethicist" blog analyzing ethnical case studies. They're fictitious but still illustrative of the gray ethnical areas in real product development. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for a long time. I would love to see more case studies.

https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics/case-studies

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Re:The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) by rbecker on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:56PM (#23969877)
But the example in the article is clearly unethical based on the client's requirements alone - it doesn't take an ethicist to see that.

In fact, a world where companies are so very ethical it takes a professional ethicist to spot unethical practices sounds nearly like a utopia.

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