MichaelZimmer.org

I missed this when it was first released back in March: UNESCO has published a survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies, “Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies”: The ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs are one of the three main priorities of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme and UNESCO was recently designated as the [...]

The New York Times has an editorial today on the issue that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals engaging in criticism and dissent. The Times calls for an industry-wide code of conduct pledging [...]

There’s been quite a bit of discussion lately across the blogosphere on “blogiarism,” the practice of cutting and pasting content from one blog onto your own without any link, attribution, editing or commentary in order to drive readers to your own advertising revenue. Clearly, such practice amounts to plagiarism and is unethical. While the blogging [...]