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THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE IN A WORLD OF DIGITAL DEPENDENCIES.

The article argues that as systems and organizations become deperimeterized, software engineers could no longer rely on an ethics of consequences but would need a new paradigm in software engineering ethics. It encourages engineers to instead rely on the precautionary principle, which lets them focu...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 50 - 57
Main Authors: Pieters, Wolter, Cleeff, André van
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jun2009
Subjects:
Software engineering
Computer software development
Precautionary principle
Software architecture
Computer security
Data protection
Ethics
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