Soft ethics

its application to the general data protection regulation and its dual advantage

Luciano Floridi

pp. 163-167

in: Anna L. Hoffmann (ed), Countercultures of data, Philosophy & Technology 31 (2), 2018.

Abstract

In a previous article (Floridi 2018), I introduced the distinction between hard and soft ethics. Since the reader may not be familiar with it, let me quickly summarise it here. I will then be able to use it to clarify two issues: the application of soft ethics to the General Data Protection Regulation (henceforth GDPR) and the idea that soft ethics has a dual advantage.