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Overview
Rapid technological advancement has given rise to new ethical dilemmas and security threats, while the development of appropriate ethical codes and security measures fail to keep pace, which makes the education of computer users and professionals crucial.
The Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security is an original, comprehensive reference source on ethical and security issues relating to the latest technologies. Covering a wide range of themes, this valuable reference tool includes topics such as computer crime, information warfare, privacy, surveillance, intellectual property and education. This encyclopedia is a useful tool for students, academics, and professionals.
Synopsis
Rapid technological advancement has given rise to new ethical dilemmas and security threats, while the development of appropriate ethical codes and security measures fail to keep pace, which makes the education of computer users and professionals crucial.
Samantha Schmehl Hines - Library Journal
Editor Quigley (information technology, Monash Univ.; Women Do Animate: Interviews with 10 Australian Animators) has assembled nearly 100 entries written by more than 150 contributors from 19 different countries on the ethical and security issues surrounding the latest information and communication technologies. The contributors discuss such topics as RFID, digital-music piracy, the rights of children online, and more in short, factual articles focusing on ethical and security concerns, which sets this work apart from other books on these concepts. They also examine issues from non-Western and minority perspectives, e.g., "Barriers Facing African American Women in Technology" and "Information Ethics from an Islamic Perspective." Entries include bibliographies and definitions of 725 key terms. The entries' alphabetical arrangement may lead to confusion-e.g., looking under Ffor "Formulating a Code of Cyberethics for a Municipality" may seem counterintuitive-but the work is effectively indexed and the entries well written and thought-provoking.
Editorials
Library Journal
Editor Quigley (information technology, Monash Univ.; Women Do Animate: Interviews with 10 Australian Animators) has assembled nearly 100 entries written by more than 150 contributors from 19 different countries on the ethical and security issues surrounding the latest information and communication technologies. The contributors discuss such topics as RFID, digital-music piracy, the rights of children online, and more in short, factual articles focusing on ethical and security concerns, which sets this work apart from other books on these concepts. They also examine issues from non-Western and minority perspectives, e.g., "Barriers Facing African American Women in Technology" and "Information Ethics from an Islamic Perspective." Entries include bibliographies and definitions of 725 key terms. The entries' alphabetical arrangement may lead to confusion-e.g., looking under Ffor "Formulating a Code of Cyberethics for a Municipality" may seem counterintuitive-but the work is effectively indexed and the entries well written and thought-provoking.
—Samantha Schmehl Hines