Ethics and Technology

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This paper explains that the technology for communication and the open publication of information advances, namely the internet, has raised more questions about issues relating to moral codes of behavior and copyright. The author points out that the advent of the internet has created ethical and practical problems such as copyright and intellectual property rights, piracy, the right to privacy, plagiarism, spam mail and credit card fraud. The paper relates that the real problem lies with the practical day to day understanding of what is meant by intellectual property and how it is being observed and abused online as related to the the application of the Fair Use principle. Many quotations.

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"However, another approach to ethics which is very pertinent to the advent of modern dissemination of information by technology is the "rights approach" to ethics. This view of ethics comes from the views of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, among others. This view stresses the choice of the individual and is a perspective which is applicable when investigating ethics on the Internet. For example, from an ethical point of view; the individual has a right to truth and a right to correct and non-fraudulent information. The individual also has the right to privacy and the right to his or her belief and view, as long as they do not violate the rights of others."

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