Philosophy Friday

Tech companies often make the claim that we want them to collect information about us so that they can provide us with more useful and well designed tools. Google CEO Sundar Pichai made such an argument in his New York Times Opinion piece (May 7 2019). In Philosophy this is called consequentialist reasoning (aka the end justifies the means). According to this moral framework, an action is moral if it maximizes happiness for those affected, regardless of how you bring …

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