Ethics Articles

The Internet

Cyber Security and the Obligations of Companies

Ken Baylor, an expert on IT security and regulatory compliance, addresses the reality of cyber security in 2013.
Margaret Steen

Privacy and Innovation

Travis LeBlanc, special assistant attorney general of California, and Irina Raicu, Internet Ethics Program Manager at the Ethics Center discuss whether privacy concerns must stifle innovation.
Margaret Steen

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

The Disconnect: Accountability and Consequences Online

A discussion of the breakdown among responsibility, accountability, and consequences in the online world, as demonstrated by some digital media coverage.
Stephen Luczo

Internet Access Is a Privilege

What would our lives be like if we no longer had access to the Internet? How much good would we lose? How much harm would we be spared? In this brief video, one of Apple's co-founders argues that Internet use is a privilege and considers ways to minimize some of the harms associated with it, while fully appreciating its benefits.
A. C. "Mike" Markkula Jr.

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

The Need for Accuracy Online

There's a gap between what Internet users expect to receive (i.e. factual and accurate information) and what they too often get instead. Is it the user's responsibility to judge which sources to access on the Web? Do the publishers have a duty to strive to be accurate?
Charles "Chuck" Geschke

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

The Right to Be Forgotten

Reputation.com co-founder Own Tripp discusses the long life of information online and its repercussions. Response by Evan Selinger, associate professor of philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Owen Tripp

On Designing a More Ethical Internet

What does it mean to live well by means of the Internet? In what ways can the Internet help us live well, or make it more difficult to live well? In this brief video, Santa Clara University Assistant Professor Shannon Vallor looks at the Internet through a philosopher's lens.
Shannon Vallor

Instagram and the Ethics of Privacy

Is it wrong for an Internet company to share users' information with third-parties and advertisers?
Alexis Babb and Amanda Nelson

Privacy by Design: An Engineering Ethics Perspective

Video of a panel discussion one "baking privacy into" products
Ben Adida,Brian Kennish,Arvind Narayanan,Irina Rai

Ethical Decision Making App Contest

Contest open to SCU students

Internet Ethics

Resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics on privacy, hacking, videogaming, databases, etc. Keywords: internet, ethics, privacy, hacking, databases, videogames

Your Privacy Online

Teaching module on Internet privacy
Irina Raicu

Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?

Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?
Irina Raicu

Privacy Protection: A Quiz

How much do you know about privacy? Try this quiz.
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

Girls Around Me

Case study on Internet Privacy
Irina Raicu

Information About You = $

How Internet companies provide personal data to advertisers
Irina Raicu

How To Protect Your Online Privacy

Tips and links
Irina Raicu

Ethics of Online Privacy

Balancing benefits and harms of Internet privacy
Irina Raicu

Information Privacy: A Case Study and Commentary

A proposal for a National AIDS registry raises concerns about privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Internet Ethics Program Manager

Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (video)

Talk by the author of "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Lori Andrews

Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Hacking

Justice, common good, utilitarian, rights, and virtue approaches to hacking hacking, ethics
Irina Raicu

Present and Future of Social Networking

A panel exploring the ethical and social implications of social networking technology.
John Squires, Kaitlin Thompson, Shannon Vallor, Ma

Leading the Technological Good Life

A Web site for students on the intersection of technology and ethics

World that Wikipedia Made

A panel discussion on technology, ethics, and the law in the Wikipedia editing model

Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking

Fairness, rights, and virtues are explored in relation to sites such as Facebook and MySpace

Ethics and Politics of Search Engines

Transcript of a panel discussing privacy, censorship, fairness, and access issues related to search engines.
Peter Norvig, Terry Winograd, Geoffrey Bowker, Kir

Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Search Engines

Privacy, censorship, trust, and intellectual property rights are among the issues raised about ethics and search engines.

Gated Communities In Cyberspace

The creation of defensible space holds the key to commerce on the Internet.
Ellen F. Harshman, Jam

Cybersmut

From blocking software to legislation, strategies address children's access to objectionable material on the Internet.
Joseph Westfall

Bewitching Miss Julia

Review of "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" by Sherry Turkle
Tim Healy

Privacy: Electronic Information and the Individual

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

2001 plus 28: The Age of Spiritual Machines

A review of Ray Kurzweil's, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Neil Quinn reviews Ray Kurzweil

Privacy Experiment

Invasions of privacy using Internet services.
Joseph Westfall

Libraries on the Information Superhighway

The ethical issues behind access to sexually explicit materials on the Internet.
MCAE

Internet Blocking

An analysis of technological solutions to the problem of cybersmut.
Joseph Westfall

The Cyber City Network

An online network for city services raises questions about access and whether the provision of services electronically will increase disparities between rich and poor.
Thomas Shanks