Concept information
Preferred term
information ethics
Definition
- This entry presents the historical background and conceptual development of moral questions as well as of methodological and scientific issues comprising the ethics of information, viewing information and communication especially in its technological form. Historical Background Information ethics, understood as a philosophical discipline dealing with good and bad practices of human communication, has a long history going back, in the Western tradition, to the question of freedom of speech (parrhesia) in the Greek polis, dealing particularly with the Sophists' and Socrates's criticisms of the mores, principles, and concepts underlying communication in all its practical and theoretical dimensions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Information Ethics]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Bureau of the Census
- Chief Privacy Officers
- corporate espionage and trade secrets
- decision-making models
- electronic commerce
- electronic surveillance
- employee monitoring and surveillance
- ethical issues in computing
- European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications
- Freedom of Information Act of 1966
- identity crimes
- information costs
- internet and computing legislation
- pretexting
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- total quality management
- transparency (accounting)
- workplace privacy
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/information_ethics
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