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Facing the future: Seeking ethics for everyday surveillance [Book Review]

Ethics and Information Technology 3 (3):171-180 (2001)

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The taming of chance.Ian Hacking - 1990 - New York: Cambridge University Press.details In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breath and verve, The Taming of Chance (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 252 citations
(1 other version)Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.Charles Taylor - 1989 - Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press.details 'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaigne, Luther, and many others. This then serves as a starting point for a renewed understanding of modernity. Taylor argues that modern (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 582 citations
Oneself as Another.Paul Ricoeur - 1992 - University of Chicago Press.details Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Download Export citation Bookmark 337 citations
Media, Culture, and Morality.Keith Tester - 1994 - Routledge.details Major and terrible events are happening in the world. They are daily reported in the media and yet most people seem to remain unmoved and uncaring. Are the media themselves responsible for this lack of care? Meanwhile, thanks to the emergence and popularity of cultural studies, the media are being studied as never before. But why is that study so often trivial and lacking in moral seriousness? Is the discipline of cultural studies part of the problem rather than, as it (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
An ethics for the new surveillance (abstract).Gary T. Marx - 1998 - Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 28 (2):1.details The Principles of Fair Information Practice are almost three decades old and need to be broadened to take account of new technologies for collecting personal information such as drug testing, video cameras, electronic location monitoring and the internet. I argue that the ethics of surveillance activity must be judged according to the means, the context and conditions of data collection and the uses/goals and suggest 29 questions related to this. The more one can answer these questions in a way that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 14 citations
(1 other version)[Book review] legislating privacy, technology, social values, and public policy. [REVIEW]Priscilla M. Regan - 1998 - Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (4):723-742.details Download Export citation Bookmark 38 citations
Written on the body: biometrics and identity.Irma van der Ploeg - 1999 - Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 29 (1):37-44.details Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations

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