Ethics in Technology

• Preface
• Introduction, Ethical Frameworks and Personal Lenses
• Defining Ethics and Related Terminology
• Ethics for Tech Developers and Tech Consumers
• Cybersecurity, Hacking, and Digital Identity
• Technology, Justice, and Social Equity
• Technology in Personal and Social Life
• Privacy, Surveillance, and Data Ethics
• Digital Communication, Social Media, Misinformation and Democracy
• Intellectual Property, Digital Art, and Emerging Economies
• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation and Robotics, and Algorithmic Ethics
• Bioethics and Human Enhancement
• Technological Disruption and the Paradox of Progress

The purpose of this text is to serve as an Open Education Resource (OER) designed initially to be used in a secondary or post-secondary education setting. It is intended to be a guide to facilitate focused discussions about contemporary issues of the ethical considerations related to technology evolution, development, deployment, and consumption, as well as issues (both known and unknown) of potential misuse and abuse of technology. This is not a traditional Ethics textbook in that it is not intended to provide a survey of all of the history of Ethics through the ages nor is it intended to dive deeply into any particular ethical movements or frameworks as may be the focus of other ethics studies. Rather, it is intended to focus predominantly on the concepts of applying critical and ethical thinking to issues and subsequent decisions related to our interactions with technology in the 21st century.