When the word 'ethical' becomes synonymous with specious, you know that something is amiss. With each data governance scandal, with each creation of a corporate 'ethics board', 'ethical standards' seemingly lose a few more feathers, to the point of generating instant suspicion when invoked in any official report. We argue that a key challenge in this regard is to more precisely define the ethics-regulation interface. In order to do this, we first provide an overview of recent endeavours to develop ethical frameworks around technology. We then look at a successful process of refinement of the ethics-regulation interface: the case of healthcare ethics in the UK. The third section develops an account of what a more robust ethics-regulation interface could look like, which would support a process of cross-fertilisation between the political, ethical and legal approaches. Finally, the fourth and last section critically examines a ‘live’ implementation of such ethics-regulation interface, as put forward in Quebec's ‘Bill 29′.

当“道德”一词变成“似是而非”时，您知道有些不对劲。随着每一次数据治理丑闻，以及每一个公司“道德委员会”的建立，“道德标准”似乎又失去了一些羽毛，以至于在任何正式报告中被引用时都会引起立即的怀疑。我们认为，在这方面的主要挑战是更精确地定义道德规范管理界面。为此，我们首先概述了围绕技术开发道德框架的最新努力。然后，我们看一个完善的道德规范管理界面的成功过程：英国的医疗保健道德案例。第三部分介绍了更强大的道德规范监管界面的外观，这将支持政治，道德和法律方法之间的相互融合。最后，第四部分也是最后一部分，对魁北克《条例草案29》中提出的道德规范界面的“实时”实施进行了批判性研究。