Being Digital
Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation ofcomputer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
On the intrinsic value of informationobjects and the infosphere
Ethics and Information Technology
The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy
Ethics and Information Technology
Four challenges for a theory of informational privacy
Ethics and Information Technology
Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
The Information Society - The Philosophy of Information, its Nature, and Future Developments
Technology Innovation and the Policy Vacuum: A Call for Ethics, Norms, and Laws to Fill the Void
International Journal of Technoethics
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The theories of information ethics articulated by Luciano Floridi and his collaborators have clear implications for law. Information law, including the law of privacy and of intellectual property, is especially likely to benefit from a coherent and comprehensive theory of information ethics. This article illustrates how information ethics might apply to legal doctrine, by examining legal questions related to the ownership and control of the personal data representations, including photographs, game avatars, and consumer profiles, that have become ubiquitous with the proliferation of information and communication technologies. Recent controversy over the control of player performance statistics in "fantasy" sports leagues provides a limiting case for the analysis. Such data representations will in many instances constitute the kind of personal data that information ethics asserts constitutes an information entity. Legal doctrine in some instances proves sympathetic to such an assertion, but remains largely inchoate as to which data might constitute a given information entity in a given instance. Neither is information ethics, in its current state of development, entirely helpful in answering this critical question. While information ethics holds some promise to bring coherence to this area of the law, further work articulating a richer theory of information ethics will be necessary before it can do so.