{
  "id": 8367,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0081",
  "title": "Soft ethics, the governance of the digital and the General Data Protection Regulation",
  "summary": "The article discusses the governance of the digital as the new challenge posed by technological innovation. It then introduces a new distinction between soft ethics , which applies after legal compliance with legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union, and hard ethics , which precedes and contributes to shape legislation. It concludes by developing an analysis of the role of digital ethics with respect to digital regulation and digital governance. This arti",
  "authors": "Luciano Floridi",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2018-10-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:37.180Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/8367",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0081",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}