Computing Ethics Surrounded by Machines.

The article presents a forecast regarding the potentially paranoia-inducing effects of pervasive monitoring technology such as position-broadcasting cellphones and online tracking. Ethical concerns related to technologies such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence are discussed. A worksho...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 29 - 32
Main Author: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2011
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        Electronic surveillance
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        Embedded computer systems
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