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Information Ethics - Privacy, Property, and Power (Paperback, New)
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Information Ethics - Privacy, Property, and Power (Paperback, New)
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This anthology focuses on the ethical issues surrounding
information control in the broadest sense. Anglo-American
institutions of intellectual property protect and restrict access
to vast amounts of information. Ideas and expressions captured in
music, movies, paintings, processes of manufacture, human genetic
information, and the like are protected domestically and globally.
The ethical issues and tensions surrounding free speech and
information control intersect in at least two important respects.
First, the commons of thought and expression is threatened by
institutions of copyright, patent, and trade secret. While
institutions of intellectual property may be necessary for
innovation and social progress they may also be detrimental when
used by the privileged and economically advantaged to control
information access, consumption, and expression. Second, free
speech concerns have been allowed to trump privacy interests in all
but the most egregious of cases. At the same time, our ability to
control access to information about ourselves--what some call
"informational privacy"--is rapidly diminishing. Data mining and
digital profiling are opening up what most would consider private
domains for public consumption and manipulation. Post-9/11, issues
of national security have run headlong into individual rights to
privacy and free speech concerns. While constitutional guarantees
against unwarranted searches and seizures have been relaxed, access
to vast amounts of information held by government agencies,
libraries, and other information storehouses has been restricted in
the name of national security.
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