The FBI and Treasury Department frown on the idea of paying off cyber attackers. But there is sufficient ethical and legal gray areas to make it a real moral quandary for business leaders.
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Cyber attacks have created new dilemmas for philosophers who determine the ethics of war.
As more comes to light about the money-making tactics of social media platforms we need to reevaluate our relationship with them.
Treating non-violent cyber attacks as warfare could lead to unnecessary escalation.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the way we live, work, communicate and travel. So long as it’s designed that way.
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
Framing cyberspace as a national security concern can quickly erode fundamental human rights.
Robots should be empowered to pick the action that most helps humans.
Simply updating and patching an organisation’s computer software may not be enough to fend off another cyber attack. You could engage an ethical hacker to help out.
The darknet, like the open internet, is not immune from illegal activity. But many darknet users are there in search of ‘hacker ethics’ values such as privacy and free speech.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield told Q&A that the Children’s eSafety Commissioner has investigated 11,000 cases of cyberbullying and can fine social media firms $17,000 a day. Is that true?
There are growing concerns about robots, artificial intelligence and automation. Now two new organisations are seeking to produce responsible robots and advance beneficial AI.
By simulating cities from the “bottom-up”, scientists can help us plan for the future.
The security breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) demonstrates governments have a lot to learn about protecting their documents from cyber attacks.
Your autonomous vacuum cleaner cleans your floors and there is no great harm if it occasionally bounces into things or picks up a button or a scrap of paper with a phone number. But then again this latter…
When Frances Abbott’s private scholarship award was “exposed”, when poetry professor Barry Spurr was outed for his inflammatory emails and when Senator Nova Peris was devastated by the leaking of her private…
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