Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices

Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices

Alfreda Dudley, James Braman, Giovanni Vincenti

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 343

ISBN13: 9781613501320|ISBN10: 1613501323|EISBN13: 9781613501337

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0

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Dudley, Alfreda, James Braman, and Giovanni Vincenti, eds. Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0

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Ethical values in computing are essential for understanding and maintaining the relationship between computing professionals and researchers and the users of their applications and programs. While concerns about cyber ethics and cyber law are constantly changing as technology changes, the intersections of cyber ethics and cyber law are still underexplored.

Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices discusses the impact of cyber ethics and cyber law on information technologies and society. Featuring current research, theoretical frameworks, and case studies, the book will highlight the ethical and legal practices used in computing technologies, increase the effectiveness of computing students and professionals in applying ethical values and legal statues, and provide insight on ethical and legal discussions of real-world applications.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Legal and Jurisdictional Issues Regarding Cyberspace

Chapter 1

Responsibility, Jurisdiction, and the Future of “Privacy by Design” (pages 1-20)

Ugo Pagallo

This chapter focuses on some of the most relevant issues in today’s data protection: responsibility and jurisdiction are examined in the light of the principle of “privacy by design.” On one hand, both from the substantial and...

Chapter 2

Hacking: Legal and Ethical Aspects of an Ambiguous Activity (pages 21-36)

Gráinne Kirwan, Andrew Power

Hacking is an activity which has long been tied with ethical and legal complications. The term has evolved to have both ethical and unethical connotations, which can be confusing to the uninitiated. Hacker subculture has a myriad of...

Chapter 3

Emerging Cybercrime Trends: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues (pages 37-56)

Sean M. Zadig, Gurvirender Tejay

The issue of cybercrime has received much attention of late, as individual and organizational losses from online crimes frequently reach into the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per incident. Computer criminals have...

Chapter 4

Law and Technology at Crossroads in Cyberspace: Where Do We Go From Here? (pages 57-77)

Anteneh Ayanso, Tejaswini Herath

Historical incidents have taught organizations several key lessons on computer crimes. The complexity of the current technology environment dictates that no one mechanism can effectively address computer crimes. Investing in the most...

Chapter 5

Cyber Law, Cyber Ethics and Online Gambling (pages 78-99)

Lee Gillam, Anna Vartapetiance

Cyberspace offers up numerous possibilities for entertainment and leisure, and can be a rich source for information. Unfortunately, it can also be a dangerous place for the unwary or ill-informed. In this chapter, we discuss some of...

Legal and Ethical Implications Involving Social Networks and Virtual Worlds

Chapter 6

An Overview of Child Abuses in 3D Social Networks and Online Video Games (pages 101-116)

Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel Vargas Martin, Patrik Olsson

It appears that child pornography distribution and child abuses on the Internet have permeated to massively multiplayer online role-playing video games (MMORPG) and 3D social networks, such as Second Life (SL), a compelling online...

Chapter 7

Ethics and Legal Aspects of Virtual Worlds (pages 117-131)

Andrew Power, Gráinne Kirwan

The development of a legal environment for virtual worlds presents issues of both law and ethics. The cross-border nature of online law and particularly law in virtual environments suggests that some lessons on its formation can be...

Chapter 8

Narbs as a Measure and Indicator of Identity Narratives (pages 132-146)

Ananda Mitra

enumeration of these attributes of the narbs produce a narb weight and a narb matrix which can be examined numerically to provide a preliminary understanding of how granulated an identity narrative would be when narbs are examined...

Chapter 9

Cloud Based Social Network Sites: Under Whose Control? (pages 147-219)

Jean-Philippe Moiny

As the author of this chapter is a European jurist, European law constitutes the point of departure of the reflections, and can be sometimes (titles I and IV) the sole legal framework of the discussion. The information in this...

Legal and Ethical Implications in Cyberspace

Chapter 10

Al-Qaeda on Web 2.0: Radicalization and Recruitment Strategies (pages 221-238)

Anne Gerdes

This chapter investigates al-Qaeda’s use of Web 2.0 as a tool for radicalization and recruitment. The media network of al-Qaeda is described in order to demonstrate the impact of their well structured media strategy for harnessing...

Chapter 11

Google in China: Corporate Responsibility on a Censored Internet (pages 239-253)

Richard A. Spinello

This chapter, focusing primarily on the search engine company Google, treats the normative issue of how U.S. or European companies should respond when asked to abet the efforts of countries like China or Iran in their efforts to...

Chapter 12

All’s WELL that Ends WELL: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutional and Administrative Frameworks of Cyberspace and the United Kingdom (pages 254-263)

Jonathan Bishop

Constitutional and Administrative Law is a core component of legal studies throughout the world, but to date little has been written about how this might exist on the Internet, which is like a world without frontiers. John Perry...

Chapter 13

A UK Law Perspective: Defamation Law as it Applies on the Internet (pages 264-279)

Sam De Silva

The development of the Internet raises challenges in the application of defamation, given that the click of a mouse can communicate a defamatory statement instantly to thousands of people throughout the world. This can pose a serious...

Chapter 14

The Hellenic Framework for Computer Program Copyright Protection Following the Implementation of the Relative European Union Directives (pages 280-287)

Eugenia Alexandropoulou-Egyptiadou

The huge financial rewards that may be gained from software sales have resulted in computer piracy, an increasing worldwide phenomenon. This situation has posed a challenge to the legislator, who has imposed regulations concerning...

Chapter 15

Internet Advertising: Legal Aspects in the European Union (pages 288-310)

Radomír Jakab

As can be derived from its name, Internet advertising means any form of promoting products or services through the Internet. This form of advertising can be distinguished into more forms such as e-mail advertising, on-line...

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