Information Technology Ethics

Digital Intellectual Property

• Why P2P filesharing is good: the P2P manifesto, by Robin Good
• The effect of filesharing of record sales: an empirical analysis, by Felix Oberholzer and Kileman Strumpf
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998: U.S. Copyright Office Summary
• US college backs Google Book plan (BBC News)

Information Privacy and Censorship

• Google will censor new China service, by Chris Oliver & John Shinal, (MarketWatch)
• Google move 'black day' for Chin (BBC News)
• Surveillance works both ways, by Kim Zetter (WIRED Magazine)
• Our domestic intelligence crisis, by Richard A. Posner (Washington Post)
• I.B.M. to put genetic data of workers off limits, by Steve Lohr (New York Times)
• Anonymity on a disc, by Quinn Norton (WIRED Magazine)
• EEF sues AT&T to stop illegal surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• The protection of information in computer systems, by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder
• Internet Pornography Statistics, by David C. Bissette (HealthyMind)

Safety-critical software

• Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS) for Air Traffic Control: NASA
• Computer system 'can land aircraft without air traffic controllers': Telegraph
• The Future of Air Traffic Control - Human Operators and Automation: The National Academies
• System safety and accident models (Links to several papers by Nancy Leveson)
• Therac-25 accidents: an updated version of the original accident investigation paper (by Nancy Leveson)

Computer Security

• The Rootkit of all evil, by Bruce Sterling (WIRED Magazine)
• Recognizing and recovering from rootkit attacks, by David O'Brien (Sys Admin Magazine)
• Hidden backdoors, trojan horses and rootkit tools in a Windows environment, by Bartosz Bobkiewicz (WindowSecurity)
• New tool gives the scoop on snoops, by Andrew Brandt (PC World Magazine)

Identity Theft

• Thief swipes more than a laptop (WIRED Magazine)
• LexisNexis data breach bigger than estimated, by Jonathan Krim (Washington Post)
• States scramble to protect data, by Jonathan Krim (Washington Post)
• ChoicePoint says it's sorry (WIRED Magaine)
• Hackers Get Collegiate Info (WIRED Magaine)
• Security Breaches (A list compiled by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and published in the Washington Post)

Machine Ethics

• Autonomous agents with norms: Ingentaconnect
• Machine Ethics Consortium: Hartford University
• On the morality of artificial agents, by Luciano Floridi and J.W. Sanders (Minds and Machines)
• Prolegomena to any future artificial moral agent, by Colin Allen, et al. (Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence)
• Prospects for a Kantian Machine, by Thomas M. Powers (IEEE Intelligent Systems)