Ethics in an Age of Surveillance: Personal Information and Virtual Identities
Cambridge University Press, 7/3/2017
EAN 9781107130012, ISBN10: 1107130018
Hardcover, 334 pages, 25.4 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
People increasingly live online, sharing publicly what might have once seemed private, but at the same time are enraged by extremes of government surveillance and the corresponding invasion into our private lives. In this enlightening work, Adam Henschke re-examines privacy and property in the age of surveillance in order to understand not only the importance of these social conventions, but also their moral relevance. By analyzing identity and information, and presenting a case for a relation between the two, he explains the moral importance of virtual identities and offers an ethically robust solution to designing surveillance technologies. This book should be read by anyone interested in surveillance technology, new information technology more generally, and social concepts like privacy and property.
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.