Corporate strategists blaming software engineers for the consequences of corporate strategy is a fairly brazen kind of blame-shifting. A system of ethics withi

Corporate strategists blaming software engineers for the consequences of corporate strategy is a fairly brazen kind of blame-shifting. A system of ethics within the health system are necessary for customers to retain trust in the health industry. It's also strongly aligned with the selfish interests of workers who must enact that system of ethics. These properties do not neatly translate to software engineering—mostly because the most difficult ethical dilemmas in technology are rarely obvious when looking at source code. The problems with Facebook (for example) are not always inherent in code; many are only revealed after being deployed at scale and external groups begin exploiting the system.