Other Related Codes of Ethics and Professional Practice

The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is likely not the only Code that applies to our members. Here we present resources for how to find the others.

Most Common

These codes apply to a significant number of our members, due to overlap between the constituencies of the ACM and the IEEE-CS.

• The Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
• The IEEE Code of Ethics

Locality-based Codes

ACM members may also be members of a local or national computer society, which may, in turn, be a member of a federation of societies. Some societies have their own codes. Others have adopted the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Here are a few illustrative examples.

• The British Computer Society Code of Conduct for Members
• The Computer Society of India Code of Ethics
• The International Federation for Information Processing Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• The Association for Information Systems Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Canada’s Association of Information Technology (IT) Professionals Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Find Everything

A very exhaustive collection of codes of ethics may be found at the IIT Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions .