“Who here believes Facebook is unethical?” [hands rise]
“Okay, who here has added a tracking pixel to a site at a client’s request?” [hands sheepishly rise]
“Okay, now we return to the trolley problem…”
A++++ #drupalcon session by @drnikki
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Ethics is not about size, so the gum argument doesn't hold. If you said bread to feed your starving family, then it might be ethical. See the "veil of ignorance argument."
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Implying that someone who has done "unethical" things with relatively small impact has no ground to criticize world-altering-scale unethical acts is disingenuous and harmful.
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Context: she wasn’t suggesting that people were hypocrites! Rather, exploring the ethical tangliness of direct participation, etc… this the trolley problem!
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Yeah seems we're missing all the context.
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But most tracking pixels are the little mosaic pieces coming from big companies, i.e. google analytics, building these kind of big tracking.
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And most abusive companies' and people's money flows up from purchases made by individuals. That doesn't mean the latter are responsible for it or even have the power to change it. Responsibility rests on those owning/building/operating the machinery of oppression.
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You have the power to remove tracking pixels on your website, don't you?
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Well I don't have any to begin with. But if someone does and they're not Amazon/Google/FB/etc.-scale, their choice to remove it or not is not going to make any significant impact on the adtech/surveillance industry.
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Just like your choice to buy a hybrid car or ride a bike is not going to make any significant impact on climate change. Only imposing policy to force everyone (esp. the big players) to change can make any impact.
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Indeed. But everyone can contribute a little bit. Of course, smaller analytics companies are not that dangerous. Yet. Self hosting is better
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And some things can change from small choices. Always remember, the outcome of an election depends on a lot of single "meaningless" votes.
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And yeah, I am absolutely pro regulations to prevent such stuff, so we actually stop the big players. GDPR may be a good start, we will see.
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The problem is in Social Media and online privacy the ethical lapses are transitive&cumulative, and also combine with the oopsies
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Your pack of gum and my pack of gum dont combine into GTA, but in GTA, two lapses might combine into a dox
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No developer gets told "your job is to leak personal data to Cambridge Analytica" and says yes. But thousands of developers add tracking pixels, because it's so insignificant. Dilution of responsibility, and you get a huge evil machinery. The Nuremberg trials showed that, too.
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