This new edition examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from computing and telecommunication technology, and mobile information-enabling devices. Features: establishes a philosophical framework and analytical tools for discussing moral theories and problems in ethical relativism; offers pertinent discussions on privacy, surveillance, employee monitoring, biometrics, civil liberties, harassment, the digital divide, and discrimination; examines the new ethical, cultural and economic realities of computer social networks; reviews issues of property rights, responsibility and accountability relating to IT and software; discusses how virtualization technology informs ethical behavior; introduces the frontiers of ethics in VR, AI, and the Internet; surveys the social, moral and ethical value systems in mobile telecommunications; explores the evolution of electronic crime, network security, and computer forensics; provides exercises, objectives, and issues for discussion in every chapter.
Author(s): Joseph Migga Kizza
Series: Texts in Computer Science
Edition: 5th
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 372
Tags: Computers and Society; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Data Encryption; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Social Sciences, general; Philosophy of Technology
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
History of Computing....Pages 1-12
Morality and the Law....Pages 13-27
Ethics and Ethical Analysis....Pages 29-51
Ethics and the Professions....Pages 53-74
Anonymity, Security, Privacy, and Civil Liberties....Pages 75-96
Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology....Pages 97-121
Social Context of Computing....Pages 123-156
Software Issues: Risks and Liabilities....Pages 157-182
Computer Crimes....Pages 183-200
New Frontiers for Computer Ethics: Artificial Intelligence....Pages 201-210
New Frontiers for Computer Ethics: Virtualization and Virtual Reality....Pages 211-229
New Frontiers for Computer Ethics: Cyberspace....Pages 231-253
Ethical, Privacy, and Security Issues in the Online Social Network Ecosystems....Pages 255-280
Mobile Systems and Their Intractable Social, Ethical and Security Issues....Pages 281-297
Computer Crime Investigations and Ethics....Pages 299-312
Biometric Technologies and Ethics....Pages 313-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-372
