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Under what circumstances is it either permissible or required for a technician repairing a computer to report the contents of files found there? A recent case of the firing of a Harvard administrator who had pornographic files on his university-owned computer raises questions of privacy and whistle-blowing.
This article from Ethics and the TIer deals with forwarding messages...and more games that people play using computers.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
Joseph R. Herkert, ed. 1999. Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings.
Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE Press (in press). Other keywords for this: consumer safety; design and the environment; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; ethics and the law; ethics support; global environmental issues; medical information; negligence; product quality; professional responsibility; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies; professionalism in computing; public safety; risk assessment; safety & performance; system security; whistleblowing.
E. Doss and M. C. Loui, "Ethics and the privacy of electronic mail," The Information Society, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 223-235, July 1995.
Other keywords for this: database confidentiality; ethical responsiveness of supervisors and managers; communication; misappropriation of company/laboratory resources.
D. Lin and M. C. Loui, "Taking the byte out of cookies: privacy, consent, and the Web," Computers and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 39-51, June 1998.
Other keywords for this: database confidentiality; corporate ethics; informed consent from human subjects.