Simon touches on a key point in his first item.
As with #falsifiability in #science, in #practice '#ethics' only work in the context of a #profession or #community *from which one can be #excluded*.
Those wishing to be #trusted as #ethical must stop issuing '#principles' and...
..setting up #EthicsBoards like @Google's or private courts like @Facebook's @OversightBoard (both demonstrating how poorly #BigTech grasps basic concepts like #justice, let alone #ethics, and how both - as #sovereign powers - have utterly misconceived #community) and start to...
...genuinely #professionalise.
Not in the shitty, self-serving, #cartel-like fashion of many companies & industry bodies in tech, advertising - and yes, DP & privacy - but in broader, deeper, more #connected ways that *could* deliver the #trustworthy #institutions of the future.
If #BigTech wants access, e.g. to our health data (it does) then as a sector and as a #discipline, it needs to get as serious as the #MedicalProfession.
Until the spoilt #BoyKings of #SiliconValley - and, frankly, everyone working for them - accept it's THEIR #responsibility...
...to engender, police and sustain the #ethical behaviour of THEIR industry - and for the #public, not just them or their hand-picked few, to decide whether they're doing a good enough job to be #trusted - we ain't going to get anywhere good, any time soon.
/rant off
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