Category: Ethics
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
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Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk
When considered in relation to individuals’ privacy, metadata should not be viewed as fundamentally different…
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Ethics in Networked Systems Research: ACM SigComm Workshop Report
– in EthicsExperimentation and research on the Internet require ethical scrutiny in order to give useful feedback…
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Should we use old or new rules to regulate warfare in the information age?
Information has now acquired a pivotal role in contemporary warfare, for it has become both…
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The Future of Europe is Science and ethical foresight should be a priority
– in EthicsHow will we keep healthy? How will we live, learn, work and interact in the…
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
People are very often unaware of how much data is gathered about them—let alone the…
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Ethical privacy guidelines for mobile connectivity measurements
Measuring the mobile Internet can expose information about an individual’s location, contact details, and communications…
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The promises and threats of big data for public policy-making
Widespread use of digital technologies, the Internet and social media means both citizens and governments…
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Responsible research agendas for public policy in the era of big data
Bringing together leading social science academics with senior government agency staff to discuss its public…
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Uncovering the patterns and practice of censorship in Chinese news sites
Is censorship of domestic news more geared towards “avoiding panics and maintaining social order”, or…
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Staying free in a world of persuasive technologies
Broadly speaking, most of the online services we think we’re using for “free”—that is, the…
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Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?
While many people continued to contribute conventional humanitarian information to the map, the sudden shift…