Ethics Articles
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- The Internet of Things
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- The ethical implications of the rise of "The Internet of Things," the "Sensor Revolution," or "The Programmable World"
Owen Tripp
- Privacy and Innovation
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- 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
- The Ethical Dilemma of BYOD
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Apps and Privacy ? A Case Study
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- Should apps be able to collect a user's contacts without permission?
Irina Raicu
- Your Privacy Online
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- Teaching module on Internet privacy
Irina Raicu
- Defining Privacy
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- A definition of privacy as a right
Irina Raicu
- Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?
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- Loss of Online Privacy: What's the Harm?
Irina Raicu
- Privacy Protection: A Quiz
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- How much do you know about privacy? Try this quiz.
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
- Are Attitudes About Privacy Changing?
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- Multi-generational approaches to privacy
Irina Raicu
- Girls Around Me
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- Case study on Internet Privacy
Irina Raicu
- Information About You = $
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- How Internet companies provide personal data to advertisers
Irina Raicu
- How To Protect Your Online Privacy
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- Tips and links
Irina Raicu
- Ethics of Online Privacy
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- Balancing benefits and harms of Internet privacy
Irina Raicu
- Privacy and Security in a Wireless World
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- Access to material from a panel on ethical issues raised by large wireless systems.
- Information Privacy: A Case Study and Commentary
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- A proposal for a National AIDS registry raises concerns about privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- What is Privacy?
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- Definitions of privacy and informational privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Why We Care About Privacy
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- The importance of privacy for human dignity, autonomy, and relationships
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Human Cost of Computer Errors
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- Inaccurate databases harm consumers
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Ethical Implications of Data Aggregation
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- The ability to amass enormous quantities of data on individuals impacts privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Unauthorized Transmission and Use of Personal Data
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- Ethical problems with using data for purposes other than the original
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Data Matching: Some Ethical Considerations
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- Lack of due process and consent raise problems
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy and Balancing Institutional Power With Individual Freedom
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- Monitoring of citizens by government and employees by employers threatens individual rights
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy and the Law
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- A review of common law privacy protection, the Constitutional right to privacy, and privacy legislation
Michael McFarland, S.J.
- Privacy Norms
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- Guidelines on protecting individual privacy
Michael McFarland, S.J.
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