The Code of Data Ethics is adopted to assist members of the organisation in making
ethical choices related to data, data processes, and AI, algorithmic and autonomous
systems.
This document introduces the data ethics framework to define the organisational
boundaries, the structure of the Code of Data Ethics, and the roles of a Data Ethicist (i.e.,
Chief Data Ethics Officer or a Data Ethics Committee) responsible for the maintenance
and enforcement of this code.
The fundamental principle that inspired this document is based on The Ethics of
Information (Floridi, 2010) according to which the main concern of a digital ethicist
“should be the ecological management and wellbeing of the infosphere”. This approach
clearly shows the environmental approach to the ethics of data, information and artificial
intelligence on which this code is built.
