CSCI 494 Social and Ethical Issues in Computing
Spring 2011
News
- 20 Jan
- Added [Den01] to the readings, if
you'd like one more take on the idea of a "computing profession".
For another take on responsibility, take a look
at [Wei86].
Assignments
Final paper (PDF)
Handouts
Additional assigned readings
For 24 Feb, visit the Wall Street Journal's "What Do They Know".
Definitely read Jim Harper's "Why Tracking Isn't Bad"
and Nicholas Carr's "The Dangers of Web Tracking".
Select and read at least one article from the series (left side of
page) and at least one more news article about commercial collection
or use of personal information.
For March 3, we'll want to look at
surveillance, combination of
government records, and government access to private records:
- [DL08]
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Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau.
Brave new world of wiretapping.
Scientific American 299(3):56-63, Sep 2008.
Via library resources.
- [Cat10]
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Fred H. Cate.
Government access to private-sector data.
IEEE Security & Privacy 8(6):68-71, Nov/Dec 2010.
Available via IEEE Computing Now at
http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0211/W_SP_GovtAccessPrivateSectorData.pdf
- [Gar08]
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Simson L. Garfinkel.
Information of the world, unite!
Scientific American 299(3):82-87, Sep 2008.
Via library resources.
- [Fal08]
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James Fallows.
“The connection has been reset”.
Atlantic Monthly, Mar 2008.
At http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/-ldquo-the-connection-has-been-reset-rdquo/6650/
For an update pertinent to the Fallows article,
see this story from
the 28 Feb 2011 New York Times.
Cary Gray
Last modified: Tue Mar 1 14:33:36 CST 2011
