Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Principles of Informational Ethics
Principles of Informational Ethics
The future of intellectual property
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics of Information Technology and Business
Ethics of Information Technology and Business
Post-September 11: Computers, ethics and war
Ethics and Information Technology
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This paper investigates a problem about freedom of information. Although freedom of information is generally considered desirable, there are a number of areas where there is substantial agreement that freedom of information should be limited. After a certain ordering of the landscape, I argue that we need to add the category of 'dangerous' information and that this category has gained a new quality in the context of current information technology, specifically the Internet. This category includes information the use of which would be morally wrong as well as some of what may be called 'corrupting' information. Some such information should not be spread at all and some should be very limited in its spread.