there are two levels of ethics: personal ethics (what do you personally find acceptable) and professional ethics (what does the industry find unacceptable). Th

there are two levels of ethics: personal ethics (what do you personally find acceptable) and professional ethics (what does the industry find unacceptable). The former varies wildly from individual to individual. The problem is that the industry has no standard professional ethics, hence no IT workers would have been trained in ethics. Other engineering fields have actual ethics training and some of them integrate that into licensure.