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3 Dec 2010
Highlights of a workshop on ethics and the internet held at the Royal Society of Engineering, London, on 3 December 2010, featuring Yorick Wilks (organiser), Luciano Floridi, Jeroen van den Hoven, Aleks Krotoski, Mike Rosner, Ralph Schroeder, Noel Sharkey, Henry Thompson.
Topics covered include:
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ethical foundations for attitudes to privacy and data protection
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ethical considerations as a driver for engineering
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the relationship between theories of ethics and practical considerations
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the benefits the internet and its negative aspects
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ethical issues relating to breaches of the anonymity of the unsuspecting
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the implications for cyberwar and computer-assisted warfare
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the vulnerabilities of internet-age weapons of war
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the illusion of individual anonymity online
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the power of large-scale distributed collaboration