Ethical Computing for Data Protection

Wanbil W. Lee
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Wanbil W. Lee: Wanbil and Associates, Hong Kong & Computer Ethics Society, Hong Kong

International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 43-58

Abstract: Data protection is a chronic problem. Technology has had a social and ethical impact on our professional, social, and private lives. It is imperative for computing practitioners and researchers to link the ethical dilemmas and the technologies to the relevant ethical theories. This paper argues that the cause is rooted in our indifference to ethics—one doesn't take ethics as seriously into consideration as one should when formulating information security policies and protection standards—and proposes an ethics-based approach that can lessen the incidence of hacking or make hacking exasperate, aiming at mitigation rather than eradication. Central to this approach is ethical computing preconditioned on a sound understanding of the applicable theories of ethics and a shift of view of risk and ethics.

Date: 2020
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