Readings in Ethics and Social Implications of Computing

Risks of Technology

• Bill Joy's Why the future doesn't need us, Wired Magazine, April 2000.
• Programming Can Ruin Your Life (?!)
• Will AI's Keep Humans as Pets?

Invasion of Privacy

• MSNBC's Your privacy invasion stories
• Big Brother Improves Medical Information Privacy
• CNN's Microsoft's GUID sparks fears of privacy invasion
• Interhack's Taking a Bold Step Forward in Privacy Invasion
• EPIC.org's Complaint and Request for Injunction against Microsoft's Passport and related .Net technologies.
• RFID Security and Privacy
• Big Brother Scans Faces for Wanted Criminals
• EFF's statement on The Fourth Amendment and Carnivore
• Amitai Etzioni's The myth of privacy invasion
• VOIP Spying to customize advertising
• Big Brother is Watching
• RFID human implants

Intellectual Property

• Brad Templeton's A brief intro to copyright and 10 Big Myths about copyright explained.
• the League for Programming Freedom's Against User Interface Copyright
• c|net's Time to rewrite the DMCA
• Wired's DMCA Protection at US Border
• the League for Programming Freedom's Against Software Patents
• Wired's Linking Patent Goes to Court
• Sony's CD's Rootkits
• Swedish Pirates Sue the Major Labels
• Skeptical View of DRM (CACM 2003)
• Fair Use, DRM, and Trusted Computing (CACM 2003)
• Copyright Management Systems
• BotW: Intellectual Property

Computers as Weapons; Weapons Against Computers

• LA Times' Bush Eases Limits on Supercomputer Exports
• CNN.com's Digital assault against Pentagon rises
• GovExec.com's Mounting a Defense
• Apple destroys unlocked iphones
• Idaho Lab Demonstrates Vulnerability in the Power Grid

Computer Crime

Topics to include fraud, embezzlement, sabotage, digital forgery, intrusion, hacking, cracking, and computer crime laws

• Cybercrime.gov's Computer Crime Policy and Programs. Note: read all the pages linked from this page.

Impact of Computers on the Workplace

Topics to include job destruction and creation, job hopping, telework, and employee monitoring

• http://www.ncat.edu/~testa/COMP390/chapters/Chapter8.htm

Impact of Computers on the Home and the Digital Divide

Topics to include bitwealth, the IT meal ticket, and computing in the 3rd world

• http://www.computer-aid.org is a society in the UK that takes discarded computers and ships them to africa instead of dumping them in landfills.

Here are some more links on computing in the third world:

• InfoWorld's Conference features technology for Third World countries
• Nicholas Negroponte' Powerless Computing
• It would also be a good idea for you to read Nicholas Negroponte's "Being Digital", but it is not an assignment.

Impact of Computers on Education

• Too Much Computers Hinders Learning
• Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues of Technology in Schools
• Social, Legal and Ethical Issues (Computers in Education)

Ethics

Topics to include ethical theories, guidelines for computer professionals

• The USENIX SAGE Code of Ethics
• The ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics dmu.ac.uk mirror
• Ethical Issues for (IT) Security Professionals
• the Communications Decency Act

The Digital Society

Topics to include chat rooms, online communities

• Coty's Digital Perfume
• Should Schools Fingerprint Your Kids?
• Social networks might actually be semi-anti-social

Computer Games

• Ethics in Computer Games
• Does the Computer Games Industry have Ethical Obligations?
• Future Games Beyond Shoot-'em-ups
• Video Game Skills Give an Edge in Life

Student-Submitted

• Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Computer Graphics
• Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technology
• FCC commissioners: US in dire need of "national broadband strategy"
• Judge quashes RIAA subpoenas in campus file-sharing case
• Know Your Rights: What to do when the RIAA comes calling - Engadget
• BLABBERMOUTH.NET - RIAA Goes After NINE INCH NAILS Fans Over Deliberate Leak Campaign - Blabbermouth.net is the CNN of heavy metal and hard rock
• MPAA head wants deeper relationship (read: content filtering) with ISPs
• Techdirt: Does The MPAA Simply Make Up Piracy Numbers Out Of Thin Air?
• IT Ethics Handbook - Free Online Library - Free Online Library: IT Ethics Handbook.(Brief Article, Book Review) by "The Bookwatch"; Publishing industry Library and information science Books Book reviews
• WIN SECurity WAR - security unleashed: Sybex - Official CEH Review Guide ebook
• Would an implanted chip help to keep my child safe?
• Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
• ipodminusitunes: Apple cuts us off
• Tech Digest: Apple faces legal onslaught from disgruntled iPhone owners
• Apple's Fairplay + 360 coolness = more piracy. at mendax.org
• iTWire - France gives Apple le finger
• Apple is at war with its users
• Study: Clandestine DRM communications may violate Canadian privacy law
• DRM provider says the technology isn't being used correctly
• Strategies Apple Uses to Create Loyal Customers - Complete solutions, familiar formats and "the cool factor" keep customers coming back.
• New weapons against IT security threats
• Computers as weapons of war
• Singapore takes war on terror to the Web
• When is downloading music on the internet illegal?
• DOWNLOADING MUSIC & ILLEGAL FILE SHARING
• Illegal Music Downloading
• RIAA
• National CyberEducation Project
• How do I download music and movies legally?
• The Ultimate Music Download Service is Here....But it's Illegal
• Filesharing
• Copyright Infringement - Our Roles and Responsibilities
• . Ruckus offers free, legal files
• PiratPartiet (Swedish Pirate Party)
• Opinion: The Problem with Protection
• Keeping the Pirates at Bay: Implementing Crack Protection for Spyro: Year of the Dragon
• Anti-copying malware installs itself with dozens of games
• Ethics of Game Design
• The Trouble With Patents
• John Carmack's Response to Video Game Patents
• Intellectual Property: The Game of Swords and Shields
• IP Deal Breakers: The 5 Intellectual Property Rights Developers Should Not Bargain Away
• Boycott Starforce
• A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
• Pushing the Impossible
• Why Is Hollywood Making A Sequel To The Napster Wars?
• A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law
• How Hollywood, Congress, And DRM Are Beating Up The American Economy
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9035481
• http://wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm
• http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16131
• http://www.anonequity.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/exploring_equiv_1.php
• http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/coupons
• http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5149745.html
• http://security.itworld.com/4357/070927chicagoscan/page_1.html
• http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/77093-Mod-Chip-Seller-Sentenced-to-Jail-Time
• http://gamepolitics.com/2007/09/21/jack-thompson-seeks-to-have-halo-3-declared-a-public-nuisance-block-its-release-in-florida/
• http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12855
• http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/Meet-Copowi-the-worlds-first-ISP-to-guarantee-network-neutrality.ars
• Social Interaction With Computers: An Interpretation of Weizenbaum's ELIZA and Her Heritage
• A Disappearing Digital Divide Among College Students?: Peeling Away the Layers of the Digital Divide
• Online Behaviors Affected by Spam
• Canada deems P2P downloading legal
• Ethics of File Sharing Music
• Vista's legal fine print raises red flags
• Virtualization and confusing array of Vista legal restrictions to haunt Microsoft and users alike
• MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS (WINDOWS VISTA)
• A sneaky change in Windows licensing terms
• Computer Ethics
• Which ethics policy for nanotechnology?
• Let a Thousand Filters Bloom
• YouTube sued over copyright infringement
• Sixth Circuit Clears Lexis Nexis of Copyright Infringement
• Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement
• From Wired: Proposed Crime of the Century: Attempted Copyright Infringement
• McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service
• Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical and moral issues regarding AI
• The Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Systems
• The pirate bay
• MPAA goes after wrong target
• RIAA, IP Addresses and Evidence
• RIAA Campus litigation
• Media Defender Source Code Leak
• Prosecutor Intends to Press Charges On Pirate Bay
• IBM Software to Scan Chicago Streets
• First US GPL Lawsuit
• MPAA Wants Content Filetering
• Big Brother is Watching Us All
• Finding myself through online identities
• Computer Ethics: Basic concepts and historical overview
• Google Maps: An Invasion of Privacy?
• DRM is a complete lie
• Impact of computer on society
• Protection an invasion of privacy
• Is Microsoft a monopoly? If so, why does it matter?
• Facebook's Facelift
• Computer crime costs $67 billion, FBI says
• Code of Ethics
• Alzheimer Care: Ethical Guidelines, Tracking Devices
• Tracking Devices Let Parents Keep Watch on Teen Drivers
• GPS Tracking Devices
• Helpful Tracking Device or Big ?
• When Invisible Electronic Ink Leaves Red Faces: Tactical, Legal and Ethical Consequences of the Failure to Remove Metadata
• *Body identification, biometrics and medicine: ethical and social considerations
• *US Army using Xbox 360 controller in Future Combat Systems tests
• BITE chews over the ethics of biometrics
• GATTACA (Philosophical Films)
• TIA
• a different kind of silicon implants
• cybernetic ethics
• wireless networks are a security leak LAX security patrols determined by random number generator. Mandatory keyloggers in Indian Cybercafes Bad software causes slot machine to pay out more often than it should - Ethical search engine optimization techniques UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: 'Copying' music you own is 'stealing' Should Computers Decide Who Gets a Transplant? 'Ethical' computer games take on shoot-'em-up classics Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat The ethics of IT Intellectual Property and the Good Society Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates IBM pledges access to its IP for standards
• ID Thieves Targeting Universities
• Hacking for Dollars
• The Ethics of Computer Network Attack
• Ethics first - Top CEOs - Oracle Corp
• Online crooks getting more professional
• Back to the future: Engineering, computing, and ethics
• Infrared Scans May Regulate HOT Lanes
• The Element of Surprise
• Government video shows mock hacker attack
• Mortgage data leaked over file network