Making Sense of the Information AgeTM A Web Site By David H. Gleason |
| Legal and Policy Legal and policy issues in Information Ethics include privacy concerns, intellectual property and copyright issues, surveillance, criminal activity, hacking, pornography, and so on. The Internet has given rise to great questions about confidentiality, security, and safety, at the same time that it has vastly increased the availability of information. Examples abound on how the Internet has changed the rules. From iTunes to Amazon.com, the impact on trade has been enormous. Encyclopedic information, opinions and chat are clicks away. And yet, the rules are nebulous, uncertain. We may think we know what is bad, but we have not yet codified it. The same person who would never steal from a store might download a song without a second thought. Many people are struggling to inject norms of behavior into this environment. The financial and personal stakes are epic. See our resources page for papers, bibliographies and links.
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