# \#ethics **URL:** https://community.humanetech.com/tag/ethics/48.md [Latest](https://community.humanetech.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.humanetech.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.humanetech.com/tags.md) --- ## [Ethical malpractices by reputation agencies (censoring) and SEO agencies (upranking)](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ethical-malpractices-by-reputation-agencies-censoring-and-seo-agencies-upranking/2749)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2018, 8:50am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ethical-malpractices-by-reputation-agencies-censoring-and-seo-agencies-upranking/2749 "2018-10-01T08:50:47Z")
Hacker News brought 2 new practices (or rather malpractices) to light that are being used on the internet by reputation management agencies and Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) agencies to either censor or uprank content (… --- ## [Ratio Launcher (Android) - Help needed to test](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ratio-launcher-android-help-needed-to-test/5282)
**Author:** [@ruth.zem](https://community.humanetech.com/u/ruth.zem)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ratio-launcher-android-help-needed-to-test/5282 "2022-02-16T09:20:54Z")
Hey everyone, :blush: as probably most of the community here, we’ve found very hard to stay focused on our phones. As you, we saw the power asymmetry of addictive UIs and users having to battle it on their own. TL;D… --- ## [Michael Sacasas: 41 Key Questions to Ask About Our Technology](https://community.humanetech.com/t/michael-sacasas-41-key-questions-to-ask-about-our-technology/5257)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/michael-sacasas-41-key-questions-to-ask-about-our-technology/5257 "2021-08-26T08:03:14Z")
Via Wendy Hoenkamp of the Dutch Consumer Watchdog (Consumentenbond) I was pointed to this Ezra Klein Show podcast that interviewed Michael Sacasas. The interview referred to key questions to ask when implementing and app… --- ## [Digitally Awakened Survey](https://community.humanetech.com/t/digitally-awakened-survey/5230)
**Author:** [@MartinHilbert](https://community.humanetech.com/u/MartinHilbert)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/digitally-awakened-survey/5230 "2021-06-17T13:23:36Z")
At the University of California, we are studying the relationship between social media and human consciousness. We need YOUR HELP to understand this relationship deeper. Please contribute by filling out this 45min - 1h … --- ## [How can tech help scale Moral Courage for nonviolent civil resistance strategy recruitment](https://community.humanetech.com/t/how-can-tech-help-scale-moral-courage-for-nonviolent-civil-resistance-strategy-recruitment/5195)
**Author:** [@garykrane](https://community.humanetech.com/u/garykrane)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/how-can-tech-help-scale-moral-courage-for-nonviolent-civil-resistance-strategy-recruitment/5195 "2021-03-14T17:33:57Z")
I’m looking for people to invite to one or more brainstorm sessions to help figure out how we might use tech to recruit and commit the numbers needed for the nonviolent civil resistance, hence morally courageous, strateg… --- ## [The Rise of Ethical Advertising](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-rise-of-ethical-advertising/5103)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-rise-of-ethical-advertising/5103 "2021-02-21T11:57:24Z")
(This is a follow-up to old topic Humane advertising - ethical and mutual-beneficial: It is possible !) There’s an increasing trend of businesses that practice Ethical Advertising. What is Ethical Advertising? Ethi… --- ## [MOOC on HumanDowngrading & PersuasiveTech](https://community.humanetech.com/t/mooc-on-humandowngrading-persuasivetech/5137)
**Author:** [@MartinHilbert](https://community.humanetech.com/u/MartinHilbert)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/mooc-on-humandowngrading-persuasivetech/5137 "2021-01-19T16:35:24Z")
The MOOC “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics” has a new section on “Human Downgrading”, “The Attention Economy” and “Persuasive Technology”, much inspired and in line with the discussions here: https://www.co… --- ## [Is Resisting Social Media as a Marketing Tactic akin to Fighting with Hands Tied?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/is-resisting-social-media-as-a-marketing-tactic-akin-to-fighting-with-hands-tied/5130)
**Author:** [@jricky](https://community.humanetech.com/u/jricky)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/is-resisting-social-media-as-a-marketing-tactic-akin-to-fighting-with-hands-tied/5130 "2020-12-31T14:38:34Z")
I’m a new member here, and have a topic I’d like to propose to the community. I haven’t seen this discussed much in depth anywhere else at this point, and I’ve had this subject on my mind for quite some time. Several ye… --- ## [New Public Festival: Civic Signals - For Better Digital Public Spaces](https://community.humanetech.com/t/new-public-festival-civic-signals-for-better-digital-public-spaces/5129)
**Author:** [@JE-FF](https://community.humanetech.com/u/JE-FF)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/new-public-festival-civic-signals-for-better-digital-public-spaces/5129 "2020-12-29T09:32:18Z")
I just heard about the New Public Festival taking place January 12-14. It’s an online convention to publicly discuss how the next generation of online platforms should be designed to foster the better aspects of humanity… --- ## [GAIA-X: Infrastructure and Data Ecosystem according to European values and standards](https://community.humanetech.com/t/gaia-x-infrastructure-and-data-ecosystem-according-to-european-values-and-standards/4856)
**Author:** [@Free](https://community.humanetech.com/u/Free)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/gaia-x-infrastructure-and-data-ecosystem-according-to-european-values-and-standards/4856 "2020-12-20T15:40:47Z")
So Germany and France are rallying European Union companies to help free them of US and Chinese tech companies. They call it Gaia-X. It’s a nonprofit project! Gaia-X aims to unify and expand EU tech companies and the … --- ## [Collaborative Ad-Tech Project to Improve the Future of the Web/Spatial Web](https://community.humanetech.com/t/collaborative-ad-tech-project-to-improve-the-future-of-the-web-spatial-web/4773)
**Author:** [@kmdoerfler](https://community.humanetech.com/u/kmdoerfler)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/collaborative-ad-tech-project-to-improve-the-future-of-the-web-spatial-web/4773 "2020-12-18T11:57:47Z")
Hello Humane Tech Community!! I currently am working on a high-profile project for one of the largest international advertising holding companies that I think would be great to get some input from members of this group … --- ## [A Web Storefront that educates and insulates shoppers from deception patterns](https://community.humanetech.com/t/a-web-storefront-that-educates-and-insulates-shoppers-from-deception-patterns/4625)
**Author:** [@leeseibert](https://community.humanetech.com/u/leeseibert)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/a-web-storefront-that-educates-and-insulates-shoppers-from-deception-patterns/4625 "2020-01-08T18:15:06Z")
I created http://1dollarthings.com originally to create a dollar store experience out of the online stores where you already shop. Recently I was inspired by the Center for Humane Technology and recognized the potential … --- ## [Identifying deception patterns on the web](https://community.humanetech.com/t/identifying-deception-patterns-on-the-web/1761)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/identifying-deception-patterns-on-the-web/1761 "2020-12-13T09:44:08Z")
Note: Newly adopted terminology is Deception Pattern. Do not use ‘dark pattern’ anymore. This topic is to make you aware and collect Deception Patterns that exist on the web and in mobile apps.. What is a Deception Pa… --- ## [Conference Talk: Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still ‘Top Dogs’ in This Brave New World of Massive IT?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/conference-talk-master-or-servant-are-we-humans-still-top-dogs-in-this-brave-new-world-of-massive-it/5071)
**Author:** [@gctwnl](https://community.humanetech.com/u/gctwnl)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/conference-talk-master-or-servant-are-we-humans-still-top-dogs-in-this-brave-new-world-of-massive-it/5071 "2020-11-16T07:24:00Z")
More in the link, but my talk will be a journey from some fundamentals of IT to effects and ethics we grapple with today (e.g. non-humane tech), using some — possibly surprising — perspectives. At the end, I will intro… --- ## [Rich Lota: How expensive tech is prioritized against basic life necessities](https://community.humanetech.com/t/rich-lota-how-expensive-tech-is-prioritized-against-basic-life-necessities/5067)
**Author:** [@biswa](https://community.humanetech.com/u/biswa)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/rich-lota-how-expensive-tech-is-prioritized-against-basic-life-necessities/5067 "2020-11-12T23:09:22Z")
It can be a challenge for someone to reduce use of social media because they want to give time to family, they want to give time to other productive field. The worst condition I have ever witnessed is people who cannot … --- ## [An Ethics Oath for Scientists and Engineers? Feedback requested.](https://community.humanetech.com/t/an-ethics-oath-for-scientists-and-engineers-feedback-requested/5064)
**Author:** [@gctwnl](https://community.humanetech.com/u/gctwnl)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/an-ethics-oath-for-scientists-and-engineers-feedback-requested/5064 "2020-11-02T14:09:41Z")
I will be giving a presentation at the Architecting for the Global Good instance of IASA’s (free, online) Business Innovation Leadership and Technology conference series. The title is “Master or Servant? Are We Humans St… --- ## [Alternatives for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) for elderly care?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/alternatives-for-ambient-assisted-living-aal-for-elderly-care/5058)
**Author:** [@schmidtke](https://community.humanetech.com/u/schmidtke)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/alternatives-for-ambient-assisted-living-aal-for-elderly-care/5058 "2020-10-31T14:22:18Z")
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is maybe the most problematic technology discussed at the moment. Elderly people want to continue to live at home, inter alia, to retain the dignity and privacy of a home, rather than move i… --- ## [The role of the Tech Ethicist in business and IT](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-role-of-the-tech-ethicist-in-business-and-it/3021)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-role-of-the-tech-ethicist-in-business-and-it/3021 "2020-09-29T13:36:23Z")
What is a tech ethicist? David Polgar makes a fundamental distinction between how a tech ethicist views technology to how an engineer does. “They typically see a societal problem that they try to craft a solution to,” s… --- ## [The Manifesto of Society Centered Design](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-manifesto-of-society-centered-design/4949)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-manifesto-of-society-centered-design/4949 "2020-09-17T09:37:27Z")
Society Centered Design The manifesto of Society Centered Design: “All around us we see signs that patriarchal capitalism and exploitative business models place profit over privacy, and efficiency over agency. They p… --- ## [The Anti-Work Phenomenon: Can you explain it? (plus, a new perspective on Work)](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-anti-work-phenomenon-can-you-explain-it-plus-a-new-perspective-on-work/4688)
**Author:** [@learner2020](https://community.humanetech.com/u/learner2020)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-anti-work-phenomenon-can-you-explain-it-plus-a-new-perspective-on-work/4688 "2020-09-17T05:10:23Z")
There’s an anti-work phenomenon or movement going on, which says that “work is bad”, giving various reasons like: negative experiences at work, bad workplace culture… being underpaid and overworked… feeling under-emplo… --- ## [Ethical Designer/Developer Peer Review Group](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ethical-designer-developer-peer-review-group/4954)
**Author:** [@nibl](https://community.humanetech.com/u/nibl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ethical-designer-developer-peer-review-group/4954 "2020-09-15T00:21:03Z")
Are you a developer or designer interested in ethical peer review? We are a group of developers, designers, and makers who want to review each other’s technology from an ethical standpoint. Most people here will be aw… --- ## ["Relate" podcast: emphasizing the HUMAN over the DIGITAL](https://community.humanetech.com/t/relate-podcast-emphasizing-the-human-over-the-digital/4866)
**Author:** [@PatMc](https://community.humanetech.com/u/PatMc)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/relate-podcast-emphasizing-the-human-over-the-digital/4866 "2020-09-12T10:30:20Z")
Hey everyone! I wanted to make you aware of a podcast that I host called “Relate,” which is all about the importance of building meaningful, deep relationships in an age that emphasizes the digital over the human. We’ve… --- ## [Resisting Surveillance Capitalism](https://community.humanetech.com/t/resisting-surveillance-capitalism/4915)
**Author:** [@ZStick](https://community.humanetech.com/u/ZStick)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/resisting-surveillance-capitalism/4915 "2020-08-19T18:08:58Z")
This is just an idea, and I’d be interested in hearing people’s thoughts on it, especially those with technical know-how surrounding data mining and the ad companies that do it. I read Shoshana Zuboff’s brilliant “Age o… --- ## [Thought provoking: Ethical Design? No Thanks.](https://community.humanetech.com/t/thought-provoking-ethical-design-no-thanks/4890)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/thought-provoking-ethical-design-no-thanks/4890 "2020-07-20T17:54:56Z")
Thought-provoking. Disturbing. A short film by Cade Diehm, a designer, writer and researcher who focuses on weaponised design, identity, infrastructure and politics. Ethical Design? No Thanks. --- ## [Humane advertising - ethical and mutual-beneficial: It is possible !](https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-advertising-ethical-and-mutual-beneficial-it-is-possible/1419)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 19, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-advertising-ethical-and-mutual-beneficial-it-is-possible/1419 "2020-05-19T19:24:24Z")
Original title: Idea - Humane advertisement policies: ethical and mutual-beneficial I was inspired to create this topic thread by some great posts and discussions \[0\]\[1\] stating the following: The idea of a social net… --- ## [Bliss-friendly Co. Startup Partner/Contribution](https://community.humanetech.com/t/bliss-friendly-co-startup-partner-contribution/4813)
**Author:** [@NoahKahn](https://community.humanetech.com/u/NoahKahn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/bliss-friendly-co-startup-partner-contribution/4813 "2020-05-14T14:50:19Z")
Hello Humane Tech community! I’m here today cause I have a unique idea I want to share with you all and I thought, what a better community of conscious, passionate, like-minded people that might be interested in joining … --- ## [Building a movement](https://community.humanetech.com/t/building-a-movement/4603)
**Author:** [@zobbybipp](https://community.humanetech.com/u/zobbybipp)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/building-a-movement/4603 "2020-02-07T20:36:26Z")
Hi everyone, This is my first post here and I’m excited to meet you all :slight\_smile: First and foremost - If you have not yet read Anand Giridharadas’s book “Winners Take All”, please do! It’s a great read that conne… --- ## [CALL TO ACTION by Dec. 9! Help Protect Kids Data in School](https://community.humanetech.com/t/call-to-action-by-dec-9-help-protect-kids-data-in-school/4547)
**Author:** [@JJmad](https://community.humanetech.com/u/JJmad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/call-to-action-by-dec-9-help-protect-kids-data-in-school/4547 "2019-12-17T01:33:04Z")
Please act on this rare opportunity to influence US laws protecting data collected on students 12 and under. The Federal Trade Commission is asking for public input on how to shape COPPA - the Child Online Privacy and Pr… --- ## [EU Ethics guide](https://community.humanetech.com/t/eu-ethics-guide/4475)
**Author:** [@azakrzew](https://community.humanetech.com/u/azakrzew)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/eu-ethics-guide/4475 "2019-11-05T17:11:47Z")
European Union is running a dialogue around ethics for the digital age. The guide is under discussion. Is there anyone who is taking part in this policy making discussion? --- ## [Critical Theory and Social Media](https://community.humanetech.com/t/critical-theory-and-social-media/4484)
**Author:** [@pbeck](https://community.humanetech.com/u/pbeck)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/critical-theory-and-social-media/4484 "2019-11-03T03:05:37Z")
Hello everyone, About a year ago, I wrote my senior thesis on a critique of facebook and offered some suggestions on how social networks could be altered (taking into consideration the horizons that VR could open). Wou… [Next page](https://community.humanetech.com/tag/ethics/48.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=ethics)