This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic.

Foreword (Deborah G. Johnson).Preface.Contributors.Introduction (Kenneth Einar Himma and Herman T.Tavani).PART I: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICALFRAMEWORKS.1. Foundations of Information Ethics (LucianoFloridi).2. Milestones in the History of Information Ethics (TerrellWard Bynum).3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology (Jeroen vanden Hoven).4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems (BatyaFriedman, Peter H. Kahn, and Alan Borning).PART II: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY,ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY.5. Personality-Based, Rule Utilitarian, and LockeanJustifications of Intellectual Property (Adam D. Moore).6. Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies(Herman T. Tavani).7. Online Anonymity (Kathleen A. Wallace).8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking,Hacktivism, and Counterhacking (Kenneth Einar Himma).PART III: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION-RELATEDPROFESSIONS.9. Information Ethics and the Library Profession (KayMathiesen and Don Fallis).10. Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software(Frances S. Grodzinsky and Marty J. Wolf).11. Internet Research Ethics: The Field and its Critical Issues(Elizabeth A. Buchanan and Charles Ess).12. Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics,Science, and Uncertainty (Kenneth W. Goodman).13. Ethical Issues of Information and Business (Bernd CarstenStahl).PART IV: RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES AND RISK ASSESSMENT.14. Responsibilities for Information on the Internet (AntonVedder).15. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation (PhilipBrey).16. Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues(Antonio Marturano).17. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict (Dorothy E.Denning).18. A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment - A SoDISInspection (Don Gotterbarn, Tony Clear, and Choon-TuckKwan).PART V: REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES.19. Regulation and Governance on the Internet (John Weckertand Yeslam Al-Saggaf).20. Information Overload (David M. Levy).21. Email Spam (Keith W. Miller and James H. Moor).22. The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If (JohnSnapper).23. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of OnlineFile Sharing (Richard A. Spinello).PART VI: ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES.24. Censorship and Access to Information (KayMathiesen).25. The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics (AlisonAdam).26. The Digital Divide: Perspective for the Future (MariaCanellopoulou-Botti and Kenneth Einar Himma).27. Intercultural Information Ethics (RafaelCapurro).Index.