Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called "Code I'm Still Ashamed Of."
In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot is he was duped into helping the company skirt drug advertising laws in order to persuade young women to take a particular drug.
He later found out the drug was known to worsen depression and at least one young woman committed suicide while taking it. He found out his sister was taking the drug and warned her off it.
By sake of comparison, take a look at the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Adopted by ACM Council 10/16/92.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:54PM
That's one of the reasons I left IT/CS and went into real engineering. Was so tired of constantly chasing the bleeding edge and changing to the new-hotness framework every so many months. It's nice to be working with technology that matures slower and actually gets proven before mass roll-outs.