Computer Ethics, Summer 2022

Online, Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00-7:30ish

Class 9 Readings


Finish reading Chapter 2 on Privacy.

Start reading Chapter 3 on Speech.


A Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation

Accessing Google Drive using someone's inadvertently revealed URL

reason.com/volokh/2022/06/17/accessing-google-drive-using-inadvertently-revealed-long-url-can-violate-computer-fraud-abuse-act.

A related review of Amy Gajda's book on privacy says "you'll stick around for generous helpings of sex and hypocrisy (which, it turns out, is pretty much the core of privacy ...)"

Is that really what privacy exists to protect?

Debates

Privacy

Target and Pregnancy: is there an ethical issue?

Insurance: is this a hidden "social credit" scheme?

Price Discrimination


Speech