The ethics of information transparency
Ethics and Information TechnologyPublished 9 March 2009
Matteo Turilli, Luciano Floridi
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It is argued that explicit ethical designs, which describe how ethical principles are embedded into the practice of software design, would represent valuable information that could be disclosed by organisations in order to support their ethical standing.
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