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020 _a9780190058135
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100 _aMiller, Seumas
245 _aCybersecurity, ethics, and collective responsibility
260 _bOxford University Press,
_c2024
_aNew York :
300 _aviii, 374 p. ;
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_c24 cm.
365 _b1126.67
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aThe advent of the internet, the exponential growth in computing power and the rapid developments in artificial intelligence have given rise to numerous ethical questions in relation to cybersecurity across various domains, not least by virtue of the dual-use character of cybertechnology—it can be used to provide great benefits to humankind, but also to do great harm. The domains in question intersect and include business (e.g., data security, data ownership and privacy), public communication (e.g., disinformation and computational propaganda), health (e.g., privacy, ransomware attacks), law enforcement (e.g., data security, predictive policing), and interstate conflict (e.g., cyberwar, autonomous weapons). This work undertakes analyses of the key ethical concepts in play, such as privacy, freedom of communication, security, and the right to self-defence. This work also develops sets of ethical guidelines to give direction to the regulation of cyberspace in these various domains. It does so from a liberal democratic perspective that seeks to protect individual rights while ensuring the collective good of cybersecurity. A central informing idea is that of institutionally embedded collective moral responsibilities that function as “webs of prevention” against cyberattacks. Cybersecurity is, in the end, a collective moral responsibility of both individual citizens and organizations, but a collective responsibility the discharging of which requires new regulation and the redesign of institutional roles, as well as technical countermeasures to cyberattacks, such as passwords, encryption, firewalls, patching, and the like. It also involves at times, we suggest, offensive as well as defensive measures.
650 _aComputer science Moral
650 _aEthical aspects
650 _aAutonomous weapons
650 _aBiometric
650 _aCognitive warfare
650 _aComputational propaganda
650 _aCybercrime
650 _aHate speech
650 _aLiberal democracies
650 _aMoral right
650 _aHerd immunity
700 _aBossomaier, Terry
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