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Cyberethics - 2

COMP107 Lectures

Unique Ethical Issues

  • Much greater scale for one person to create harm.
  • Can operate in their own home.

However, just because technology has unique features doesn’t meant that it makes new issues.

Policy Vacuums

These are gaps in out laws and policies provided by new situations and capabilities.

The fact that computers are logically malleable generates policy vacuums as they can be used in unanticipated ways.