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Computing Ethics: A Call to Action: Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.

The article questions the relationship between computer ethics, technology and society, and surveillance capitalism and calls for popular mobilization by reducing the use of technology, increasing human interactions, and lobbying to increase oversight of technology. The author also calls for compute...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 23 - 26
Main Authors: Baecker, Ronald M., Winter, Susan J.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2022
Subjects:
Computer ethics
Technology & society
Capitalism
Government policy on information technology
Mass mobilization
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