Ethics in an Age of Surveillance - Personal Information and Virtual Identities

We live in an age of surveillance. In this book, the moral importance of this is explained through an examination of virtual identities.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Part I. Surveillance Technologies and Ethical Vacuums: 1. On the project and its motivation; 2. On privacy; 3. On property; Part II. Identity and Information: 4. On identity; 5. On information; 6. On identity and information; Part III. Ethical Importance of Information: 7. On importance; 8. On individuals; 9. On institutions; 10. In conclusion; Appendix 1. Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Adam Henschke is an applied ethicist, working on areas that cross over between ethics, technology, and security. He is a lecturer at the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University, Canberra, and a research fellow at Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands. His research concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics, and relations between ethics and national security. He has published on surveillance, emerging military technologies, and intelligence and cyberspace. He is Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the International Society of Military Ethics (APAC-ISME).

Summary

This book is for people interested in surveillance technologies, new information technologies more generally, and social concepts like privacy and property. It provides explanations of why such technologies are morally important and of our ambivalent behaviors towards these technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Henschke, Adam (Australian National University Henschke, Henschke Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107570474
• ISBN: 978-1-107-57047-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, COMPUTERS / Security / General, LAW / Privacy, The self, ego, identity, personality, Ethics & moral philosophy, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Ethics and moral philosophy, Privacy & data protection, Privacy and data protection, Privacy law