internet Privacy and business ethics

"We, who have a private life and hold it infinitely the dearest of our possessions...." (1) INTRODUCTION An important part of the ethics of business is computer ethics (CE) or information ethics. According to Luciano Floridi (2) the urgency of computer ethics has not yet been raised to the status of a philosophically respectable topic. Most philosophers view computer ethics as a "professional ethic" rather than a true ethics issue. The purpose of this paper will be …

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