Do the Right Thing: Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
The article looks at the relationship between law and ethics, focusing on the ways in which the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) has criminalized some of the valuable and ethically justifiable actions of computer science researchers and how this situation is reflected on a wider scale in oth...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 18 - 21 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
May2023
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