Embedded Ethics: Pandemic Exposure Notification Systems and Giving Ethical Justifications

be leaked. However, increased privacy comes at the cost of lowered public health protections. In the Philosophy portion of this module, students return to the stakeholders they met in the first module, with a different ethical goal in mind: justifying a design decision to a stakeholder who would have preferred a different ethical trade-off. They practise this through a second collaborative activity and a short, written, homework exercise. All the elements of this module, and the materials that support them, are described in Section 6. Together these two modules demonstrate how technical design decisions can be ethically informed. After completing these embedded ethics modules, students will be better prepared to recognize and discuss ethical issues, and take them into account in their design decisions—skills that will be increasingly important to their careers.