The title of this year's talk is The Ethics Void. Here's a rough abstract:
Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research—each of these fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in law. And this is for good reason: these are fields that have enormous consequences.
Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. Last year, I introduced numerous topics concerning #privacy, #security, and #freedom that raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.
For this talk, I want to solicit the community at various points. I know what _I_ want to talk about, but what are some of the most important ethical issues to _you_? Unfortunately there's far too much to fit into a 40m talk! Also feel free to e-mail me at mtg@gnu.org.
I've been working in development for many years. I've worked as a web developer creating websites for advertising campaigns (both front-end and back-end) and as a software engineer creating internal software for a relatively large company.
FYI If you work in #Security, or you'd like to know more about it, the nice guys at CIRCL (circl.lu) created an incredibly good Open Source Threat Intelligence Platform called MISP (@MISPProject on blue bird/ http://www.misp-project.org/).
"Smart Phone Feature Request: Guest Mode" in this article the good people in CrimethInc. make a case for what they call "Guest Mode" for smartphones, rallying for teams and companies behind mobile OSes to come with this rather interesting and particular solution to a real problem and added layer of security and privacy.
I think it would be interesting to see this in @Purism#Librem5.