AUTHOR Philippe Scheimann ABSTRACT Knowing that we are the eve of the Millennium, this paper is trying to build a bridge between technology, spirituality and communication: we look at the evolution of the Information Technology and the Internet on the one hand and at the nature of Man based on (Indian) spirituality and modern theories […]
AUTHOR Giuseppe Sacco ABSTRACT “Every millennium has its own apocalypsis” has been written relative to the so-called “Millennium Bug Problem”, and the issue has been discussed with a varying degree of seriousness in different countries, but has been too frequently considered as a one-time problem. Many people with important collective responsibilities even in the minority […]
AUTHOR Richard S. Rosenberg ABSTRACT Much of the motivation for filtering and blocking programs arises from the efforts in the U. S. to defeat the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) by showing that programs exist, or would soon exist, to control access at the local level, removing the need to place the burden on […]
AUTHOR László Ropolyi PUBLISHED IN ETHICOMP Journal Vol 1 Issue 2 ABSTRACT There is a close analogy between the situation of the citizens of the XV-XVI. century and that of the netizens of our age. In the late Middle Ages the crisis of belief, now the crisis of knowledge can be diagnosed. Reorganisation of the […]
AUTHOR Wade Robison ABSTRACT The information about us being collected on hard drive is turning us into Leibnizian digital monads–strings of predicates of digitized data. Those concerned to protect those strings have claimed that giving access to that string either invades our privacy or denies a property right. These two rights are combined in the […]
AUTHOR David A. Rice ABSTRACT Copyright protects computer programs and audio visual works, and provides limited protection to data compilations. The European Union Data Protection Directive and proposed United States legislation call for database protection beyond that ordinarily provided by copyright. Although expanding, these protections are limited and are becoming secondary to the use of […]