Links of General Interest in the Area of Computer Ethics

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Internet Society
• A list of links to university courses of similar content and intention, as well as a list of links to web-sources on similar topis in general can be found at the web-page of Paul Starr's (Sociology) course on "Communications, Culture, and Society".
• MIT class on Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier. (Carolyn Gratzer)
• The CU Digest. (Richard Bae)

Links Sorted Roughly by Course Topics

1. Risk and Responsibility

   • The Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals (ICCP)
   • RISKS-Forum. Archives are also available at this site. The RISKS-Forum also exists as the USENET newsgroup comp.risks.
   • PostScript version of an SGI-memo about the dilemma between quality and rapid market-entry. (Greg Humphreys)
   • USG Voting Protocol (Jason Woodard)

2. Ethical Theory

3. Intellectual Property and Computer Software

   • MEME-interview with Richard Stallman (Karna Nisewaner)
   • list of legal cases in week 7 readings (Jonathan Karpick)
   • GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE as an example of Stallman's proposed "free" software. (Jason Woodard)
   • The View on Patents from a European Practitioner (Joe Corkery)
   • Ethics and Intellectual Property Resources on the Web (New York Times, April 24, 1996, registration required to view this page).

4. Privacy and Information Technology

   • EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center
   • The Privacy-Forum, a moderated listserv.
   • I/CODE (Ken Yanovsky)
   • Internet Privacy Coalition (Ken Yanovsky)

5. Crime by Computer

   • Encryption code is speech (Jason Woodard)
   • THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling (Karna Nisewaner)

6. The Networked World

   • Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community
   • Prof. Felten, CS Princeton, Java Security: From HotJava to Netscape and Beyond