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  1. Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility.Terrell Ward Bynum & Simon Rogerson (eds.) - 1998 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    This clear and accessible textbook and its associated website offer a state of the art introduction to the burgeoning field of computer ethics and professional responsibility. Includes discussion of hot topics such as the history of computing; the social context of computing; methods of ethical analysis; professional responsibility and codes of ethics; computer security, risks and liabilities; computer crime, viruses and hacking; data protection and privacy; intellectual property and the “open source” movement; global ethics and the internet Introduces key issues (...)
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  • A critique of positive responsibility in computing.James A. Stieb - 2008 - Science and Engineering Ethics 14 (2):219-233.
    It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of “undesirable events” associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Programmers, software developers, and other computer professionals should be defended against such vague, counterproductive, and impossible ideals because these imply the mandatory satisfaction of social needs and the equation of ethics with a kind of altruism. The concept of social needs is debatable (...)
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  • Software informed consent: Docete emptorem, not caveat emptor. [REVIEW]Keith Miller - 1998 - Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (3):357-362.
    Should software be sold “as is”, totally guaranteed, or something else? This paper suggests that “informed consent”, used extensively in medical ethics, is an appropriate way to envision the buyer/developer relationship when software is sold. We review why the technical difficulties preclude delivering perfect software, but allow statistical predictions about reliability. Then we borrow principles refined by medical ethics and apply them to computer professionals.
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  • The moral responsibility of software developers-3 levels of professional software engineering.Donald Gotterbarn - 1995 - Journal of Information Ethics 4 (1):54-64.
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  • The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism.Ayn Rand - unknown
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