If presented with the need to make a decision in a situation that involved ethical and/or legal nuances, you must demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the issues that would allow you to research various options and formulate a course of action that can be justified to both colleagues and the public at large.

Read the ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional:

https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code/

and ACM code of ethics.

https://ethics.acm.org/2018-code-draft-3/

• Find at least three clauses or statements in the code(s) that you think directly relate to issues in the following case:

*The SoftRam placebo software" incident:

SoftRam is a product marketed by Syncronys Softcorp as a utility for use with Microsoft Windows. SoftRam is supposed to provide compression of data stored in main memory, in effect allowing the system to run as if it had more memory. Since buying SoftRam was cheaper than buying more memory, this appealed to many people. At one time, SoftRam was a best seller." However, several different sources eventually discovered that the product actually did no compression, and did not even contain code that could have done what was claimed. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the product. Microsoft requested that Syncronys Softcorp remove the designed for Windows 95" logo from the packaging, and several class-action lawsuits were filed.

(*Bowyer, Kevin. "Case study resources for an ethics and computing course." In Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings., vol. 1, pp. 469-473. IEEE, 1997)