Eticas Research and Consulting is a Spain-based SME founded in 2012 as a university spin-off. Since then, Eticas has been working on the legal, ethical and social impact of security policy, innovation and technology development, as well as the interaction between changing societal values, engineering possibilities and fundamental rights. We support responsible research and innovation by assessing the ethical, legal and social impact of data-intensive technologies.
Our mission is to focus on the analysis of the contextual factors that can and should guide technological development and implementation, with a particular emphasis on understanding broader contextual issues linked to trust and acceptability, legal compliance, social externalities and ethics.
We solve problems and provide assistance on topics related to: AI, Big Data and Open Data, Cybersecurity, Technology audit and smart cities, Ethics in ICT, Impact Assessment, Acting and Assisting Living Technologies, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Secure societies, Economics of surveillance.