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To include "4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts"
Every single time a "wHaT eVeRy DeVeLoPeR mUsT kNoW" link is posted on HN I ctrl-f it for "ethic" and every single time: "Phrase not found".
As far as I can tell, unless there is either professionalization or legislation (or both) in the software development world organizations will never, ever, stop trying to screw their users.
Neither professionalization nor legislation will "solve" the rampant abuse of the public by software developers in the form of unethical PII harvesting and sharing, outright lying like in the case of nearly every single travel site, or the complete and utter disregard for security that many organizations exhibit, but it's a start.
Ok, but presumably you state that to imply those degree holders are more ethical and that leads to more ethical outcomes in the organizations that employ them. What kind of support do you think there is for that?
And you're implying software developers don't take any ethics class(es) in college, which is false.