Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 2 Issue 2

Ethical challenges to citizens of ‘The automatic Age’: Norbert Wiener on the information society

Terrell Ward Bynum

This article discusses the foresight of philosopher/mathematician Norbert Wiener who, in the 1940s, founded Information Ethics as a research discipline. Wiener envisioned the…

Civil disobedience online

Mathias Klang

The Internet is used for every conceivable form of communication and it is therefore only natural that it should be used as an infrastructure even for protest and civil…

The implications of digital rights management for privacy and freedom of expression

Ian Kerr, Jane Bailey

This paper aims to examine some of the broader social consequences of enabling digital rights management. The authors suggest that the current, mainstream orientation of digital…

Ethical aspects of facial recognition systems in public places

Philip Brey

This essay examines ethical aspects of the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes in public and semipublic areas, focusing particularly on the balance…