/ethics

https://<yourwebsite.com>/ethics

Participate by reserving the /ethics URL on your domain to speak to your ethical decisions technological landscape

With technology playing an ever-increasing role in our daily lives, it's important we consider the various ethical concerns raised as a result. The /ethics (slashethics) initiative provides an authoritative place for entities to broadcast their ethical considerations regarding the technology they build and deploy to the world.

What are the goals of the /ethics initiative?

1. Define and discuss ethical issues related to today's technology
2. Provide an authoritative place (/ethics URL) to share views on such issues

Issues

Below is a working list of various ethical issues technology builders may encounter. Feel free to post questions, related links, personal experiences, etc. in the comment threads. We want to encourage an open but friendly discourse surrounding these often complicated topics.

Are we missing an important topic? Please help by opening an issue to start a new conversation!

Data Collection

Data Ownership

Design

Privacy

Censorship

Interoperability

Advertising

Security

Trackers & Scripts

Prior Art

• /purpose from Fictive Kin
• /green from Kyle MacDonald

Inspiration

• http://www.timewellspent.io/
• https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496
• https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/
• https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads