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Ethics in an Age of Surveillance Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)

Ethics in an Age of Surveillance By Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)

Ethics in an Age of Surveillance by Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)


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This book is for people interested in surveillance technologies, new information technologies more generally, and social concepts like privacy and property. It provides explanations of why such technologies are morally important and of our ambivalent behaviors towards these technologies.

Ethics in an Age of Surveillance Summary

Ethics in an Age of Surveillance: Personal Information and Virtual Identities by Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)

People increasingly live online, sharing publicly what might have once seemed private, but at the same time are enraged by extremes of government surveillance and the corresponding invasion into our private lives. In this enlightening work, Adam Henschke re-examines privacy and property in the age of surveillance in order to understand not only the importance of these social conventions, but also their moral relevance. By analyzing identity and information, and presenting a case for a relation between the two, he explains the moral importance of virtual identities and offers an ethically robust solution to designing surveillance technologies. This book should be read by anyone interested in surveillance technology, new information technology more generally, and social concepts like privacy and property.

Ethics in an Age of Surveillance Reviews

'Ethics in an Age of Surveillance remains a highly significant work to be reckoned with and responded to by those in the field of surveillance studies. It makes its mark as the first serious, full-length philosophical examination of surveillance. Furthermore, while it may appear unnecessary to some, the grounding of the debate in metaphysics and epistemology offers the field a philosophical depth that it has so far lacked. It is hard to imagine future works being able to ignore this first step on the road to a well-developed and rounded philosophy of surveillance.' Kevin Macnish, Ethics and International Affairs

About Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)

Adam Henschke is an applied ethicist, working on areas that cross over between ethics, technology, and security. He is a lecturer at the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University, Canberra, and a research fellow at Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands. His research concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics, and relations between ethics and national security. He has published on surveillance, emerging military technologies, and intelligence and cyberspace. He is Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the International Society of Military Ethics (APAC-ISME).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I. Surveillance Technologies and Ethical Vacuums: 1. On the project and its motivation; 2. On privacy; 3. On property; Part II. Identity and Information: 4. On identity; 5. On information; 6. On identity and information; Part III. Ethical Importance of Information: 7. On importance; 8. On individuals; 9. On institutions; 10. In conclusion; Appendix 1. Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781107570474
9781107570474
1107570476
Ethics in an Age of Surveillance: Personal Information and Virtual Identities by Adam Henschke (Australian National University, Canberra)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2018-12-20
336
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