1、Why is a cosmetics company getting involved in the work of digital ethics?Well,because we all have a duty to give a shit about the future of our planetand the life that inhabits it.At Lush we vehemently believe that digital rightsare human rights,and without conscious change on a global,holistic lev

2、elthose rights are compromised.Humanity is sadly not in a position to turn ablind eye to the issues we face as a global society any more.So instead wewill roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty trying to make a smalldifference to a big problem.To keep us accountable to the beliefs that we hold

3、true,Lush formulated itsown set of Digital Ethics Policies in 2016,which we consider every time wedesign,build or launch a digital product.These policies are now locked intothe ethical charter of the Lush EBT and represent a platinum standard thatwe aim to move iteratively closer to in each decision

4、 that we make.They areour guiding principles.We do not wish to be draconian in the way that we enforce them,but theyneed to be a conscious consideration in everything that we build and design.In the same way that we know that we cannot immediately eradicate palm oilfrom all of our cosmetics products

5、,despite acknowledging the necessity tomove toward palm-free alternatives,we determined these policies to act asa destination that we are continually driving toward.These policies can beconsolidated into three categories that are further detailed below.Open-Source:The open-source policy is about emb

6、racing the use of open-sourcetechnologies in everything that we design,build and release throughoutthe Lush technology estateWe will only use technologies that are released on an OSI-approvedlicenseGiving back we will give back our research and code under an OSI-approved license to the open communit