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Dan Gillmor | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Annals of corporate crime, part 647,803: Philips profited from medical breathing machines that maimed and killed patients -- and kept its malfeasance secret for a decade. https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
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a24355cc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c Just yesterday, I perused the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for the first time.

(I joined ACM via SIGCHI fairly recently and didn’t even know that such an extensive, thoughtful, and, well, ethical, Code existed. *sigh*)

The cognitive disconnect could hardly be greater between that Code on the one hand, and the everyday money-is-everything decision making of High Tech corporate “leadership” on the other.

Just utterly shameful.

https://ethics.acm.org