{"id":98275,"date":"2019-11-08T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/engineers-arent-trained-to-be-ethical-and-that-needs-to-change"},"modified":"2019-11-08T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:24:06","slug":"engineers-arent-trained-to-be-ethical-and-that-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/engineers-arent-trained-to-be-ethical-and-that-needs-to-change","title":{"rendered":"Engineers aren\u2019t trained to be ethical\u2014and that needs to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-arent-trained-to-be-ethical-and-that-needs-to-change2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This summer, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/faceapp-app-aging-privacy-concerns-russia-facial-recognition-9941b08a-f585-4574-b40e-d240c1584b4e.html\">FaceApp debate exploded<\/a> on social media, as people questioned the motives of the Russian engineers behind the technology that scanned millions of people\u2019s faces, with no indication of what happened to the data given to the app.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy is presumably top of mind for the general public, but people\u2019s urge to literally see the face of their own future selves seemed to outweigh that threat.<\/p>\n<p>FaceApp may serve no benefit beyond entertainment. But today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/every-company-is-now-a-tech-company-1543901207\">every company effectively becomes a tech company<\/a> by leveraging advanced data analytics to fuel their business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, the FaceApp debate exploded on social media, as people questioned the motives of the Russian engineers behind the technology that scanned millions of people\u2019s faces, with no indication of what happened to the data given to the app. Privacy is presumably top of mind for the general public, but people\u2019s urge to literally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}