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I have brought this up before, but this already exists.

https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics

Copyright 1999. I was taught ethics in my college work, so clearly everyone else just ignores it like they do for the various other fields where there is an ethics code. People suck.



The issue is that there's no pressure on employers to require it, so there's no advantage on e.g. employability or salary from getting these codes.

I live in the UK and was considering going through the British Computer Society certification process years ago, but dropped it, because while I do care about the ethical side etc. the additional amount of effort it'd take to document skills I already had was not worth it when prospective employers in the fields I've worked in just did not care.




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