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List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Editors’ Note: Computing Curricula 2001 Guidelines of IEEE-CS and the ACM

Editors’ Introduction: Ethics in the Information Age

  • PART I: What Is Computer Ethics?
    1. Reason, Relativity, and Responsibility in Computer Ethics – James H. Moor
    2. Unique Ethical Problems in Information Technology – Walter Maner
    3. Ethical Decision-Making and Case Analysis in Computer Ethics – Terrell Ward Bynum
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • PART II: Professional Responsibility
    1. Unintentional Power in the Design of Computing Systems – Chuck Huff
    2. Informatics and Professional Responsibility – Donald Gotterbarn
    3. The Ethics of Software Development Project Management – Simon Rogerson
  • Case to Analyze: The London Ambulance Case
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • PART III: Codes of Ethics
    1. No, PAPA: Why Incomplete Codes of Ethics are Worse than None at All – N. Ben Fairweather
    2. On Licensing Computer Professionals – Donald Gotterbarn
  • Case to Analyze: The Chemco Case
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • Appendix: Example Codes of Ethics
    • A1 – The Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
    • A2 – The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
    • A3 – The ACS Code of Ethics
    • A4 – The BCS Code of Conduct
    • A5 – The IEEE Code of Ethics
    • A6 – The IMIS Code of Ethics
  • PART IV: Sample Topics in Computer Ethics
  • Computer Security
    1. Computer Security and Human Values – Peter G. Neumann
    2. Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? – Eugene H. Spafford
  • Case to Analyze: A Flight of Fancy at Aero Wright
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • Privacy and Computing
    1. Towards a Theory of Privacy in the Information Age – James H. Moor
    2. Data Protection in a Changing World – Elizabeth France
  • Case to Analyze: A Small Matter of Privacy
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • Computing and Intellectual Property
    1. Proprietary Rights in Computer Software – Deborah G. Johnson
    2. Why Software Should Be Free – Richard Stallman
  • Case to Analyze: Free-Range Property
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources
  • Global Information Ethics
    1. The Computer Revolution and the Problem of Global Ethics – Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska
    2. Giving Offence on the Internet – John Weckert
  • Case to Analyze: A Clever Idea
  • Additional Readings and Web Resources

A Final Case to Analyze: Corner Shop Goes Virtual

Bibliography
Index

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