Sara Baase - Gift of Fire, A: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology, 5/e

Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology

Fifth Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Baase, Sara, author. | Henry, Timothy M., author.

Title: A gift of fire : social, legal, and ethical issues for computing technology / Sara Baase, San Diego State University, Timothy M. Henry.

Description: Fifth edition. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016058670| ISBN 9780134615271 (alk. paper) | ISBN 0134615271 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: ComputersSocial aspects. | ComputersMoral and ethical aspects. | ComputersLegal and Constitutional aspects. | InternetSocial aspects. | InternetMoral and ethical aspects. | InternetLegal and Constitutional aspects.

Classification: LCC QA76.9.C66 B3 2018 | DDC 303.48/34dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016058670

ISBN 10: 0-13-461527-1

ISBN 13: 978-0-13-461527-1

To Keith, now and always

S. B.

To Tita, for her unconditional support

T. M. H.

This book has two intended audiences: students preparing for careers in computer science (and related fields) and students in other fields who want to learn about issues that arise from digital technology, the Internet, and other aspects of cyberspace. The book has no technical prerequisites. Instructors can use it at various levels, in both introductory and advanced courses about computing or technology.

Many universities offer courses with titles such as Ethical Issues in Computing or Computers and Society. Some focus primarily on professional ethics for computer professionals. Others address a wide range of social issues. The bulky subtitle and the table of contents of this book indicate its scope. We also include historical background to put some of todays issues in context and perspective.

Students (in computer and information technology majors and in other majors) will face a wide variety of issues in this book as members of a complex technological society, in both their professional and personal lives. We believe it is important for students to see and understand the implications and impacts of the technology.

The last chapter focuses on ethical issues for computer professionals. The basic ethical principles are not different from ethical principles in other professions or other aspects of life: honesty, responsibility, and fairness. However, within any one profession, special kinds of problems arise. Thus, we discuss professional ethical guidelines and case scenarios specific to computing professions and we include two of the main codes of ethics and professional practices for computer professionals in an Appendix. We placed the professional ethics chapter last because we believe students will find it more interesting and useful after they have as background the incidents, issues, and controversies in the earlier chapters.

Each of the chapters in this book could easily be expanded to a whole book. We had to leave out many interesting topics and examples, so we placed some of these topics in exercises and hope these will spark further reading and debate.

For this fifth edition, we updated the whole book, removed outdated material, added many new topics and examples, and reorganized several topics. New material appears throughout. We mention here some major changes, completely new sections and topics, and some that we extensively revised.

• This edition has more than 75 new exercises.

• has a new section on self-driving cars (a topic that appears again in later chapters). In this chapter, we introduce the Internet of Things, another topic that reappears in later chapters.

• New, expanded, or extensively revised topics in and added more Fourth Amendment issues and significant court decisions about searching cellphones and tracking people by tracking their phones.

• In , we expanded the section on how companies handle objectionable content, added recent controversial examples of leaks of sensitive material, and expanded the discussion of net neutrality.

• In , we expanded discussion of exemptions to the DMCA, added copyright cases in several countries related to news excerpts, added the court decision and arguments in the lawsuit against Google for copying millions of books, and updated and added several patent cases.

• We extensively reorganized and updated . We added a case study (the Target breach). Other new sections cover hacking methods and why the digital world, including the Internet of Things, is so vulnerable. The new section on security includes, among other topics, what cybersecurity professionals do, responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities, the role of users in security, and the controversies over impenetrable encryption and backdoors for law enforcement. The chapter has many new examples throughout.