ACM code of ethics

Advancing the Study of Human Values in Software Engineering

“…Reference was also made to the 1992 IEEE-ACM CS Code of Ethics [15] as an additional source of statements. We chose the most appropriate Code of Ethics principle for each value type as the basis of a Q-Sort statement.…”

Dark Patterns and the Legal Requirements of Consent Banners: An Interaction Criticism Perspective

“…Previous scholarship has revealed markedly different discourses regarding ethical concerns, with the academic community largely focused on arguing in relation to moral and ethics theory (e.g., [41,42,86]) and the practitioner community focused more on tangible and problematic practices (e.g., [18,22,49,50]). While there has been substantial interest in ethically-focused design practices in the HCI community for decades, most of this work has been subsumed into one of three categories: 1) the development and maintenance of a code of ethics in the ACM, including relevant use of this code in education and practice [46,72,101]; 2) the construction and validation of methods to support ethics-focused practice, most commonly within the methodology of Value-Sensitive Design (VSD; [41,42]); and 3) the use of practitioner-focused research to reveal patterns of ethical awareness and complexity [25,49,84,85,87,88,92,99].…”

“…The language of ethics and values increasingly dominates both the academic discourse and the lived experiences of everyday users as they engage with designed technological systems and services. Within the HCI community, there has been a long history of engagement with ethical impact, including important revisions of the ACM Code of Ethics in the 1990s [7,45] and 2010s [46,72,101], development and propagation of ethics-and value-focused methods to encourage awareness of potential social impact [31,41,86], and the development of methodologies that seek to center the voices of citizens and everyday users [10,34,78]. In the past few years, everyday users have begun to become more aware of the ethical character of everyday technologies as well, with recent public calls to ban facial recognition technologies [2] and further regulate privacy and data collection provisions [100,102], alongside critiques and boycotts of major social media and technology companies by employees and users alike [40,93].…”

A critical professional ethical analysis of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

“…By "computing professionals" the ACM attempts to draw in as broad a range of people who use computers in a meaningful way as part of their job, including education and research. The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (known as "the Code") (Gotterbarn et al, 2018), was last updated in July 2018, in response to the changes in industry and society since the previous version from 1992, using a large-scale, international approach to capture both member and non-member understandings of professional practice within the computing sector (Brinkman et al, 2017;Gotterbarn et al, 2017). In the words of the ACM, the Code "identifies the elements of every member's commitment to ethical professional conduct.…”

“…students of all types); and those working in voluntary roles such as on open source projects or hobbyists (Brinkman et al, 2017). It was designed to reflect "the diversity of the activities computing professionals are involved in" (Gotterbarn et al, 2017): for example, closed-source, open source, Free software, for-profit, and not-for-profit projects, teaching, learning, research, development, etc. Therefore, as a framework for the development of any technology, the ACM Code is well-suited for use for analysis as the technology developed is likely to (or should) have professionals (whether established or aspiring) involved in the creation of it, and as a reflection of the conscience of that profession (Gotterbarn et al, 2017), these professionals should be able to use it as a basis for ethical interrogation of the technology they are developing.…”