The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics [Hardcover]

This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic.Foreword?(Deborah G. Johnson).

Preface.

Contributors.

Introduction?(Kenneth Einar Himma and Herman T. Tavani).

PART I: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS.

1. Foundations of Information Ethics (Luciano Floridi).

2. Milestones in the History of Information Ethics (Terrell Ward Bynum).

3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology (Jeroen van den Hoven).

4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems (Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn, and Alan Borning).

PART II: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY.

5. Personality-Based, Rule Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property (Adam D. Moore).

6. Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies (Herman T. Tavani).

7. Online Anonymity (Kathleen A.? Wallace).

8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking (Kenneth Einar Himma&lB