Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 6, 2017, 8:20 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Developments in the last few years have shown that computing can no longer be considered neutral or without morals. Most kinds of programs or services have some hidden or implicit morals in them. Especially when things are published at the Internet scale, you see clashes in what is considered morally acceptable.
There have been several examples of this in the past few years: Facebook and its emotional contagion study where they tried to influence emotions of their users without telling them. Or academic researchers trying to measure censorship by tricking users into attempting to load censored webpages. There are many more of these examples.
Fortunately many academic researchers have realised that this is happening and are calling for action: more ethics education in computer and data science. This is more easily said than done however, but things are moving in the right direction.
This talk will discuss some recent cases to explain how computing and ethics are related. I will also describe developments in the academic and professional field on how to deal with these issues.
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Jeroen is an academic, hacker, tinkerer and thinker, member of Randomdata. He works at the National Cyber Security Centre, and holds a guest appointment at TUDelft and University of Amsterdam.
Jeroen van der Ham received his MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University in 2002, his MSc in System and Network Engineering in 2004, and his PhD in 2010, both at the University of Amsterdam, after which he continued his research at the same Network Engineering research group. In 2013 he switched to teaching at the System and Network Engineering Master and focused on security, and especially ethics in security. This led to the founding one of the first ethical committees in a computer science education. Since the beginning of 2015 he works at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as a security researcher, where he works on Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (aka Responsible Disclosure), privacy aspects of incident response and thinks about ethics in cybersecurity.
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