Textbook :
Computer and Information Ethics
by Marsha Cook Woodbury, Ph.D., University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
ISBN 1-58874-155-9
Other readings
Ethical Issues in Business and Information Systems, Roy Dejoie, et. al. (pp. 1 = 2).
10 Big Myths about copyright explained, by Brad Templeton, http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Anti-Piracy FAQ, The Software & Information Industry Association,
FAQ
Computer Monitoring: A Threat to the Right to Privacy?, by Karen
Nussbaum (pp. 134 = 139).
Porn, the Harvard dean and tech support, by Richard Hemingway,
Tech support
Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace: Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the
Online Revolution, by Jonathan Wallace, Mark Mangan (Eds.) (1997)
Equal Access to Computing, Computing Expertise, and Decision Making about Computers, by Deborah G. Johnson (pp. 210 -218).
Information Ethics: An Environmental Approach to the Digital Divide, Luciano Floridi,
IEE
Why I Never Met a Programmer I Could Trust, by John Shore, pp. (97 = 102).
Buggy software still takes a toll, by Alorie Gilbert,
Buggy software
Vulnerable on All Accounts: How Computerized Vote Tabulation Threatens the
Integrity of Our Elections, An Election Watch Report in CPSR newsletter (pp. 155 = 163).
The Social Impact of Computer-Mediated Voting, by Arnold B. Urken,
Intro
MP3: Legal and Ethical Issues, by Adam Powell,
Web monkey
Questionnaire: Ethics in the Age of Napster and MP3, by Betsy Frederick and Celia Einhorn, http://www.iste.org/profdev/symposia/cs/2002/media/cs02-frederick-einhorn-handout.pdf
Is there a Hacker Ethic for 90s Hackers?, by Steven Mizrach,
Hackethics
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics:
An Exercise in the Moral Imagination, by Michael R. LaChat (pp. 278 = 294)
The ethics of spam, by Mark Gibbs,
The ethics of spam
The NEIU conduct code for cheating.
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, ACM Council,
ACM code
Graham Peace is editing a new book on information ethics.
He is looking for contributions for chapters. The Call for Chapters
can be found at http://www.drpeace.com/infoethics/
Some classic texts (thanks to Michael Nagera) like
Platon, "Politea"
(Book II + III, The education of the Guards)
John Stuart Mills "On Liberty",
Kant "Metaphysik der Sitten" (which include principles of copyright, trust
etc.) or
Simon de Beauvoir's Book on the marquis de Sade.
the original
article on the right to privacy by Warren & Brandeis.
some classical ethics of engineering, like the case of the Killer robot.
there are some prime examples in the german literature (like the
writtings of R|diger Funiok).
Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility ,
edited by Terrell Ward Bynum and Simon Rogerson,
Blackwell Publishing ISBN 1 855 54845 3,
400 pages $39.95
