Ethicswishing

July 22, 2024

That’s for the goals we can set ourselves as individuals. But when it comes to bringing justice to today’s tech, which is almost entirely made of collective systems, we don’t so much need tech ethics as we need the means to push back against domination and push forth for the needs of people impacted by those systems. Put differently, what we need is tech governance or rather, if you too are tired of euphemisms, tech politics.

Source: Ethicswishing

Across the world, the EU, UK, Japan, Australia, even the US, regulators are sarong to at least pay some attention to the largest companies in the world, who have almost overnight become central to our economies, our societies, our political systems.

Robin Berjon, who was for some time the VP of Data Governance at the New York Times, and is a Voce Chair on the W3C’s Board of Directors here writes about tech ethics and governance.