The Ethical Problems of Information Technology: Computers, Privacy and the IT Revolution.
This paper will examine the contemporary ethical debates regarding new Information Technologies, with a particular emphasis upon privacy issues. While a number of differing viewpoints will be considered in this regard, it will argued that when one looks beneath the Utopian vistas promoted by corporations participating in the new Information Technologies, it becomes clear that these technologies presents disturbing ethical challenges to us today, and the possibility of a profound threat to our social privacy and political freedoms in the future. 10 pgs. 16 f/c. 9b.