Ethical investors are starting to take a country’s income level into account
Tag: Ethical
Does ethical investment withhold capital from those that most need it?
WHAT DOES ESG stand for? To most people it refers to the environmental, social and governance standards that guide a growing number of ethical investors. But Charlie Robertson of Renaissance Capital, an investment bank, reckons ESG risks becoming code for something else: an excuse for investors to put all of their money in Scandinavia. Prosperous […]
Ethical OS Helps Tech Startups Avert Moral Disasters
A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b68db664177c301e3b9b067/master/pass/Ethical%20OS-01.jpg
Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?
The data was anonymized, but academics are still concerned about the ethics of the analysis. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b57c02ec77c0914167d4eba/master/pass/dropbox_security-01.jpg
Family DNA Testing at the Border Would Be an Ethical Quagmire
New offers from consumer genetic testing companies raise more questions than they answer. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2c3b78e0244127666a501a/master/pass/reunification-876057380.jpg
Microsoft’s Ethical Reckoning Is Here
Revelation of contract with US immigration agency sparks criticism amid family separations https://media.wired.com/photos/5b283c94b878a15e9ce80dc2/master/pass/FDRWD6-(1).jpg
Study on moderate drinking and heart attack prevention shut down over ethical problems
The U.S. government is shutting down a study that was supposed to show if a single drink a day could prevent heart attacks, saying ethical problems with how the research was planned and funded undermine its credibility.
How a strong board of directors keeps AI companies on an ethical path
GUEST: Following the corporate corruption scandals of the early 2000s, then-Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William Donaldson said determining the company’s moral DNA “should be the foundation on which the Board builds a corporate culture based on a philosophy of high ethical standards and accountability.” Today’…Read More
Some Facebook employees are reportedly quitting or asking to switch departments over ethical concerns (FB)
Toby Melville/Reuters Facebook engineers are quitting or trying to transfer to Instagram or WhatsApp, according to a recent report from the New York Times. Employee dissatisfaction reportedly stemmed from the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a data-analytics company used information from an estimated 87 million profiles to influence voters during the 2016 election. Many […]
U.K. use of doctors to find migrants raises ethical concerns
To track down people in Britain who may have broken immigration rules, the government is turning to a new and controversial source of information: doctors.
