Stephen Cohen, Chief Architect

Microsoft Public Sector Services

IASA CITA-P

The study of morality's effect

on conduct

A system of moral principles

A set of principles of right conduct.

Professional Responsibility

• Codes of conduct

• Held liable

• Ask why

Aristotle’s 4 causes of being

• Material

• Effective

• Formal

• Final

An Architects’ 4 causes of being

• Material

• Effective

• Formal

• Final

Infrastructure

Solution

Information

Business

Society

Community

Customer

User

Business

Portfolio

Project

We Focus here

Others Focus

here

We Should

Focus here

Facts

Proof

Evidence

Context

Empathy

Honor

Truth in Data

• External facts

• Big data uniqueness

• Source agreement

• Validating data sets

• State driven volatility

• Freedom from intrusion

• Control of personal information

• Freedom from surveillance

• User Provided to operations

• Monitoring use

• Analysis after the fact

Identity

• Anonymous users

• Transparency

• Bi-directional trust

• Mislead location services

• Do-not-track

Intellectual property

• Data reuse

• GPS traffic data

• Health care data

• Search Personalization

Lawful Neutral

True Neutral

Neutral Good

Chaotic Neutral

Lawful Good

Lawful Evil

Chaotic Good

Chaotic Evil Neutral Evil

Order Chaos Evil

Go

od

"Saintly" or "Crusader"

HIPPA Compliance

"Benefactor" COOP "Rebel," or

"Cynic" Forced

Centralization

"Judge" or "Disciplined" Prohibitive

Governance "Undecided"

Arbitrate Conflict

"Anarchist" or "Free Spirit"

External Arch/Lead

"Dominator" or "Diabolic" Process over

Product “Selfish” “Selfish” Forcing

Technology "Destroyer" or

"Demonic" Politics and

Image

• Governance

• Inversion of personal use policies

• Who’s policies wins?

• Who ‘owns’ the cookies, history, local cache for audit and forensics?

Two ethical questions

• Do your ethics align or clash with your customer, your team, or your company

• Are you taking the time to consider ethics as part of you architectural process