Ethical Standards
Various national and international professional societies and organizations have produced code of ethics documents to give basic behavioral guidelines to computing professionals and users. They include:
- Association for Computing Machinery: ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- British Computer Society: BCS Code of Conduct & Code of Good Practice
- IEEE: IEEE Code of Ethics
- Computer Ethics Institute: Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
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