Ethics Articles

The IT Industry

The New Digital Divide

In this brief video, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and innovator Kim Polese addresses the new digital divide--between those who have high-speed wired broadband access to the Internet in their homes, and those who don't.
Kim Polese

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

Privacy and the Law

A review of common law privacy protection, the Constitutional right to privacy, and privacy legislation
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Privacy Norms

Guidelines on protecting individual privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.

Occidental Engineering: An Ethics Case Study and Commentary

A case study and analysis of an ethical dilemma facing a software engineer
Michael McFarland, S.J

Engineering Ethics (Video)

Why ethics is important for engineers.
Michael McFarland S.J, Irina Raicu

End of Life IT Management

Managing the reuse and disposal of outdated computer equipment is the subject of this video from Cisco, featuring Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson .
Cisco News

Virtues and Vices of Open Source

An analysis of the ethical issues surrounding free software.
Eben Moglen

Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Open Source

Issues confronting the free software movement include how best to promote innovation and the common good.

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

The Case of the X979 Jumpstart

This fictional case study asks us to consider the ethical boundaries involved in intellectual property.
Peter A. Facione

Taking Responsibility for E-Waste

Environmental damage from computer and other electronic waste.
Chad Raphael

Unanticipated Consequences of Technology

An investigation of the ubiquitous phenomenon of unanticipated consequences. Concludes with ethical implications of acting when consequences will occur.
Tim Healy

FAQs: Illegal Software Use

Ethics and software piracy.
Terry Shoup

Treatment of Emplolyees in High-Tech Start-Ups

Weakness rather than evil accounts for many instances of unethical behavior.
Denis J. Moberg