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Mobile Technology and Social Media - Ethical Implications

In emerging markets in particular, mobile devices and social media have become ?life tools??used for telemedicine, banking, education, communication, and more. These developments give rise to new ethical challenges.
Radha Basu

The Ethical Dilemma of BYOD

As people increasingly bring their own (mostly mobile) devices into the workplace, and use them for both personal and professional activities, new challenges arise--for the employees as well as their employers. Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of VMware, discusses some of the implications of BYOD for data security and personal privacy.
Pat Gelsiger

Protecting Privacy and Society

Consumer and business data is increasingly moving to the "cloud," and people are clamoring for protection of that data. However, "maximum privacy" is really anonymity, and some people use it as a shield for illegal and unethical behavior. How should cloud service providers deal with this dilemma?
Steve Bennett

Privacy Tradeoffs Online

NetApp's Executive Chairman Dan Warmenhoven discusses the development of GPS-tracking technology and the ethical issues associated with the aggregation of GPS data into large databases.
Dan Warmenhoven

Human Cost of Computer Errors

Inaccurate databases harm consumers
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Ethical Implications of Data Aggregation

The ability to amass enormous quantities of data on individuals impacts privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Unauthorized Transmission and Use of Personal Data

Ethical problems with using data for purposes other than the original
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Data Matching: Some Ethical Considerations

Lack of due process and consent raise problems
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Ethics and Databases: Traces of Ourselves

Transcript of a panel discussion with Mitch Kapor, Lotus founder; John Arquilla, Naval Post Graduate School; and S. Leigh Star, SCU Center for Science, Technology and Society

Unavoidable Ethical Questions about Databases and Data Mining

A look at databases and data mining from the perspectives of utilitarianism, fairness, rights, common good, and virtue ethics perspectives.

Ethics and Technology in the Wake of September 11th

Co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology discusses issues raised by the terrorist attacks.
E. Floyd Kvamme

Privacy: Electronic Information and the Individual

The security of personal information in the Internet age.
Joseph Westfall