After a speech by European Parliament President Martin Schulz calling for an “all-hands on deck” approach to “Internet issues,” the University of Cambridge’s Julia Powles and the University of Oxford’s Carissa Veliz echo his sentiments in an op-ed for the Guardian, arguing that legislation can’t be the only protection for netizens and that developing a “culture and ethics” is necessary. “Ethics is here to insist that the future is full of open possibilities, that we are free to reject those technologies or processes that will worsen our lives, and that if we do reject them, they will fail,” they write. “The new European data rules and ethics initiative represent a tremendous opportunity.”
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