AUTHOR Shalini Kesar ABSTRACT The problem of computer crime continues to increase across the world (CSI/FBI 2007). Audit Commission Report (2001) broadly categorized computer crime into Fraud; Theft; Use of illicit software; Invasions of privacy; Hacking; Sabotage and Virus. The Report defined computer fraud, as an unauthorized input, or alteration of input; destruction/suppressing/misappropriation of output […]

AUTHOR Veikko Ikonen and Eija Kaasinen ABSTRACT This paper shares experiences of ethical assessment of future-oriented design scenarios. Scenario-Based Design has been implemented widely to the concept and product development processes. Especially in the development of Information and Communication Technologies the Scenario-Based Design approach has been utilized though with different variations and modifications. Ethical issues […]

AUTHOR Chuck Huff ABSTRACT What is it that we teach when we convene courses in computer ethics? Documents like the Hastings Center Report (Callahan, 1980) encourage us to teach ethical reasoning skills, and we certainly do so. More focused curriculum guides (Huff & Martin, 1995) also present a host of intermediate-level knowledge (e.g. privacy, software […]

AUTHOR Richard Howley and Gilesh Pattni ABSTRACT Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) have been widely promoted as offering technological safeguards to data privacy and security for more than a decade. Indeed, the development of a European system for data protection that resulted from the 1995 European Directive, and the UK 1998 Data Protection Act were predicated […]

AUTHOR Jeroen van den Hoven and Noëmi Manders-Huits ABSTRACT The use of computer supported modeling techniques, computerized databases and statistical methods in fields such as law enforcement, forensic science, policing, taxation, preventive medicine, insurance, and marketing greatly promotes the construal of persons “as risks”. In the “persons as risk” discourse, persons are characterized in terms […]

AUTHOR David Sanford Horner ABSTRACT Stories of social, cultural and economic futures underwritten by the latest advances in technology are a familiar trope (Seidensticker, 2006; Selin, 2007). In this paper I will extend my recent work in which I have argued that the only rational response to the claims of ‘futurism’ should be one of […]