Teema 15. Choosing a Company with IT code of ethics and analyze.


You can take any big company and sleep through their pages of code of ethics written by lawyers and read by none.

The more interesting approach is to look at the discrepancy between stated ethics guide and what the company is actually doing.

step 1. Standartised code of ethics is possible to look at here: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

and then some real life interesting cases you can take from this link:

one of the most typical breach of code of ethics is "dark UX" - using trics of UX to make User to do on the web page somethign that is not what they intednd to do, but that lead to some benefit of the Webpage owner.


and the live cases you can get from this Twitter feed:


and finally we arrived to the Ryanair sample, company that has Ethics code 


The point 3.3. of Ryanair  ->  states following:
 
3.3 Fair Dealing Ryanair does not seek competitive advantage through illegal or unethical business practices. All employees should endeavour to deal fairly with customers, competitors and employees. No employee should take unfair advantage of anyone through manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts, or any unfair dealing practice.


and then we see the example of the "dark patterns" tricks used by Ryanair:


This is age old tricks, invented and used by many companies as a response to the GDPR regulation.

Not surprising, that companies are stating some ethics principles as their moral compass, but then go and break them in the name of profit. 

Alas! 

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