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Information technology is an integral part of the practices and institutions of post-industrial society. It is also a source of hard moral questions and thus is both a probing and relevant area for moral theory. In this volume, an international team of philosophers sheds light on many of the ethical issues arising from information technology, including informational privacy, digital divide and equal access, e-trust and tele-democracy. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how accounts of equality and justice, property and privacy benefit from taking into account how information technology has shaped our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences. Information technology changes the way that we look at the world and deal with one another. It calls, therefore, for a re-examination of notions such as friendship, care, commitment and trust

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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Repeating Concepts, Observations and Insights -- Part I: Journey -- Chapter 2: Cyberspace: The Ethical Frontier [1995] -- Chapter 3: But IS IT Ethical? [1995] -- Chapter 4: Information Ethics: The Second Generation [1996] -- Chapter 5: A Review of Information Ethics [2010] -- Chapter 6: Towards a Chronological Taxonomy of Tourism Technology: An Ethical Perspective [2018] -- Part II: Process -- Chapter 7: The Ethics of Software Development Project Management [1996] -- Chapter 8: An Ethical Review of Information Systems Development: The Australian Computer Society's Code of Ethics and SSADM [2000] -- Chapter 9: A Practical Perspective of Information Ethics [2001] -- Chapter 10: Responsible Risk Assessment with Software Development: Creating the Software Development Impact Statement [2005] -- Chapter 11: Information Systems Ethics - Challenges and Opportunities [2019] -- Part III: Product -- Chapter 12: The Social Impact of Smart Card Technology [1998] -- Chapter 13: A Moral Approach to Electronic Patient Records [2001] -- Chapter 14: Internet Voting - Well at least It's "Modern" [2003] -- Chapter 15: Digital Existence - The Modern Way to Be [2018] -- Chapter 16: Is Professional Practice at Risk Following the Volkswagen and Tesla Revelations? [2017] -- Chapter 17: The Dangers of Dual-Use Technology: A Thought Experiment Exposé [2019] -- Chapter 18: Grey Digital Outcasts and COVID-19 [2020] -- Part IV: Future -- Chapter 19: E.Society - Panacea or Apocalypse? [1998] -- Chapter 20: The Virtual World: A Tension between Global Reach and Local Sensitivity [2004] -- Chapter 21: Future Vision [2015] -- Part V: Education -- Chapter 22: Preparing to Handle Dilemmas in the Computing Profession [1996].

We already entered the era of Unmanned Vehicles, drones, boats and more recently cars are going to be "driven" by software, sensors, cameras, radars and more are the senses of our vehicles. If the risk that a flying or floating drone can be hacked is concerning us as well as the temporary lack of specific legislation, what about the concerns related to ethical and moral aspects, not neglecting the legal ones, concerning autonomous road vehicles such as cars and buses ? Safety and security standards for such devices are not set actually, how will behave two cars, both from the same builder or not, in case of imminent collision? Of course, the cyber-driver is supposed to be perfect but the environment may introduce some bias, hence on the moral and ethical side how will the cyber-driver take decisions? As an additional concern, today even cars may be subject to cyber-attacks as it already happened to Jeep vehicles in the United States, if on one side the regular car service or re-call for update can be performed through the permanent car connection to the Internet, no more need to physically take the car back to the service (this might lead to unwanted outcomes), on the other side in case of cyber-attacks our car might behave in a unpredictable way. As a consequence, possibly before a mass diffusion of such vehicles, we must be aware about some aspects: the risk of cyber-attacks that may turn everyday commodities like cars into "weapons" and the "programmed" behaviour of cars in case of "risky" scenarios. Security standards and harmonised "behaviours" together with an appropriate legal framework will probably help.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding and Regulating Al-Powered Recommender systems -- Part I: Fairness and Transparency -- Chapter 2: Recommender Systems and Discrimination -- Chapter 3: From Algoritmic Transparency to Algorithmic Choice: European Perspectives on Recommender Systems and Platform Regulation -- Chapter 4: Black Hole instead of Black Box? - The Double Opaqueness of Recommender Systems on Gaming Platforms and its Legal Implications -- Chapter 5: Digital Labor as a Structural Fairness Issue in Recommender Systems -- Part II: Manipulation and Personal Autonomy -- Chapter 6: Recommender Systems, Manipulation and Private Autonomy - How European civil law regulates and should regulate recommender systems for the benefit of private autonomy -- Chapter 7: Reasoning with Recommender Systems? Practical Reasoning, Digital Nudging, and Autonomy -- Chapter 8: Recommending Ourselves to Death: values in the age of algorithms -- Part III: Designing and Evaluating Recommender Systems -- Chapter 9: Ethical and Legal Analysis of Machine Learning Based Systems: A Scenario Analysis of a Food Recommender System -- Chapter 10: Factors influencing trust and use of recommendation AI: A case study of diet improvement AI in Japan -- Chapter 11: Ethics of E-Learning Recommender Systems: Epistemic Positioning and Ideological Orientation.

Is procreation a biological act or an essentially human act? I believe that this is a fundamental question to be addressed when evaluating human reproductive technology. All the more so because assisted reproductive techniques can so easily shift from the therapeutic to the manipulative. The distinction between therapy and experimentation pure and simple lies at the very core of any analysis of this particular area of study in order to safeguard the integrity of the "person" which is the subject of treatment. I do not only refer here to the patient in the broad sense of the term, but to all parties involved in the reproductive process as well as the human life from inception. ; N/A

Contents -- Introduction -- Complex issues in Global Perspective -- Foreword -- 1. Salla Silvola, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Justice, Finland -- 1.1 Regulations in the Nordic Countries -- 1.2 IVF surrogacy is prohibited in all the Nordic countries -- 1.3 Upcoming domestic reforms -- 1.4 Cross-border issues -- 2. Helga Sól Ólafsdóttir, Social Worker and Assistant Professor, University of Iceland -- 2.1 Counselling and ART -- 2.2 "What is wrong with me?" -- 2.3 A process that goes on for years -- 2.4 "The law does not make sense" -- 2.5 Reluctant to seek help

This work explores the implications of emerging technologies for the future of the human family, in particular our growing and urgent need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtue-specific qualities of character that humans need in order to live wisely and well with the uncertainty and complexity of a rapidly changing technosocial environment

The key problems for the survival of mankind are disarmament and development. Science and technology play a major role as much to emphasize the threat as to give mankind the means to proceed to a correct identification of risks, the way to remedy them, and to move toward new promises and expectations. A philosophical and ethical clarification has become necessary, in the perspective of a new world economic order. A code of conduct must be sought, by consensus, for the international transfer of science and technology to reduce inequalities and inequities. The existing system of sociopolitical values must be reintegrated in a worldwide value system.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Perspectives on Technology and Its Value -- 1 The Definition of Technology -- 2 Value-Free Technology? -- 3 The Values Built into Technologies -- 4 Technological Determinism: What It Is and Why It Matters -- 5 Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology -- 6 Postphenomenology and Ethics -- 7 Technology and the Extended Mind -- PART II: Technology and the Good Life -- 8 Ethical Theory and Technology -- 9 Disagreeing Well about Technology -- 10 Technology and the Virtue of Honesty -- 11 Confucian Ethics of Technology -- 12 Utilitarianism and Happy-People-Pills -- 13 Marxist Perspectives on Technology -- 14 Technology and Trust - A Kantian Approach -- PART III: Computer and Information Technology -- 15 Values in Artificial Intelligence Systems -- 16 A Kantian Course Correction for Machine Ethics -- 17 Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Mental Health: Psychotherapy Chatbots -- 18 Privacy, Security, and Surveillance -- 19 Being-in-the-Screen: Phenomenological Reflections on Contemporary Screenhood -- 20 Race, Gender, and Visibility on Social Media -- 21 Fake News: There's No App for Truthfulness -- PART IV: Technology in Business -- 22 Adam Smith on the Dangers of the Digital World -- 23 Social Media Firms, Echo Chambers, and the Good Life -- 24 Data Science and Business Ethics -- 25 Technology Firms and the Business Case for Diversity -- 26 Big Tech & -- Political Equality -- 27 AI and the Law: Can the Legal System Help Us Maximize Paperclips and Minimize Deaths? -- PART V: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Enhancement -- 28 Biomedical Technology and the Ethics of Enhancement -- 29 Genetic Enhancement: Just Say Yes -- 30 Feminism and the Ethics of Reprogenetic Technologies.

This book provides a wide and deep perspective on the ethical issues raised by pervasive information and communication technology (PICT) - small, powerful, and often inexpensive Internet-connected computing devices and systems. It describes complex and unfamiliar technologies and their implications, including the transformative potential of augmented reality, the power of location-linked information, and the uses of "big data," and explains potential threats, including privacy invaded, security violated, and independence compromised, often through widespread and lucrative manipulation. PICT is changing how we live, providing entertainment, useful tools, and life-saving systems. But the very smartphones that connect us to each other and to unlimited knowledge also provide a stream of data to systems that can be used for targeted advertising or police surveillance. Paradoxically, PICT expands our personal horizons while weaving a web that may ensnare whole communities. Chapters describe particular cases of PICT gone wrong, but also highlight its general utility. Every chapter includes ethical analysis and guidance, both specific and general. Topics are as focused as the Stuxnet worm and as broad as the innumerable ways new technologies are transforming medical care. Written for a broad audience and suitable for classes in emerging technologies, the book is an example of anticipatory ethics - "ethical analysis aimed at influencing the development of new technologies" (Deborah Johnson 2010). The growth of PICT is outpacing the development of regulations and laws to protect individuals, organizations, and nations from unintended harm and malicious havoc. This book alerts users to some of the hazards of PICT; encourages designers, developers, and merchants of PICT to take seriously their ethical responsibilities - if only to "do no harm" - before their

This anthology, with contributions by leading scholars, introduces a new theme into the growing field of science-and-theology. This is the third volume published in association with ESSSAT in the series. This volume focuses on two topics that have so far received little attention, in the growing field of science-and-theology, i.e. ethical matters and issues raised by the technological applications of scientific knowledge. The book's main themes are: technology's impact on our worldview; morality, nature, and culture; and, morality in a technological society. The book is a selection of contribu