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'Mind the gap': science and ethics in nanotechnology
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Published in 2003, this article reviews the literature, governmental funding and policy documents available concerning nanotechnology.
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Intergenerational Instruction in Engineering Ethics about the Future
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This essay discusses a method by which ethics may be taught which includes young students and senior citizens in discussions about the future of technology.
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Privacy and the Internet
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A collection of scenarios, essays, articles, and links on the subject of privacy on the internet.
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Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public
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By Helen Nissenbaum. This essay argues that information and communications technology, by facilitating surveillance, by vastly enhancing the collection, storage, and analysis of information, by enabling profiling, data mining and aggregation, has significantly altered the meaning of public information.
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The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age
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An essay by Helen Nissenbaum debating anonymity on the Internet. The author discusses online identities, or virtual persons, and cites specific examples of how one's online identity can be used to discover the name of the Internet user.
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Online Privacy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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This essay discusses privacy issues inherent in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Professionalism in Computing: A Web-based Learning System
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Starting from a project to develop a digital library for a Computer Science course studying social impact and computer ethics, the paper describes a highly interactive Web-based, active-learning system that is a highly developed work-in-progress.
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Online Essays about Computers and Software
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Essays about computer ethics maintained on other websites.