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Computers & New Technology Essays and Articles

• Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public
  By Helen Nissenbaum. This essay argues that information and communications technology, by facilitating surveillance, by vastly enhancing the collection, storage, and analysis of information, by enabling profiling, data mining and aggregation, has significantly altered the meaning of public information.

• The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age
  An essay by Helen Nissenbaum debating anonymity on the Internet. The author discusses online identities, or virtual persons, and cites specific examples of how one's online identity can be used to discover the name of the Internet user.

• Professionalism in Computing: A Web-based Learning System
  Starting from a project to develop a digital library for a Computer Science course studying social impact and computer ethics, the paper describes a highly interactive Web-based, active-learning system that is a highly developed work-in-progress.

• Online Privacy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  This essay discusses privacy issues inherent in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• Ethics and Reverse Engineering
  This student project uses interviews with Texas Instruments employees to explore the ramifications of reverse engineering.

• Online Essays about Computers and Software
  Essays about computer ethics maintained on other websites.

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