Togetherness and respect: ethical concerns of privacy in Global Web Societies

Today's computer network technologies are sociologically founded on hunter-gatherer principles; common users may be possible subjects of surveillance and sophisticated Internet-based attacks are almost impossible to prevent. At the same time, information and communication technology, ICT offers the technical possibility of embedded privacy protection. Making technology legitimate by design is a part of the intentional design for democracy. This means incorporating options for socially acceptable behaviour in technical systems, and making the basic principles of privacy protection, rights and responsibilities, transparent to the user. The current global e-polis already has, by means of different technologies, de facto built-in policies that define the level of user-privacy protection. That which remains is to make their ethical implications explicit and understandable to citizens of the global village through interdisciplinary disclosive ethical methods, and to make them correspond...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: AIS
• Authors: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Virginia Horniak
• Keywords: AIS 2006, Artificial Intelligence, Intentional Design, Privacy Protection, Sophisticated Internet-based Attacks