Computer Ethics, Week 10

Nov 9

Class will be online on Nov 23

Class 10 Readings

Read Chapter 4 sections on patents, and Chapter 5 on crim  of Baase.

The main course notes are in the Notes Organized by Topic section on the main web page. Reading assignments, comments on the class discussion and occasional special notices are in these week-by-week notes.



Debates

Privacy

Ethical theories: pld.cs.luc.edu/ethics/mnotes/privacy_others.html#SSN

Speech: First-person libel: pld.cs.luc.edu/ethics/mnotes/speech.html#source_code_speech

Software Patents

pld.cs.luc.edu/ethics/mnotes/patents.html