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.

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adam Henschke, Henschke Adam, Adam (Australian National University Henschke
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Comunicazione dati, reti; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9781107570474
• ISBN: 978-1-107-57047-4
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Categorie: 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