Communications of the ACM articles from December 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from December 1995

Property and speech: who owns what you say in cyberspace?
December 1, 1995... Here are two of apparently, unrelated events: Blown Cover. February 1, 1995, Helsinki, Finland. Finnish police present Johan (Julf) Helsingius with a warrant demanding he provide them with the true name of the person who has been using his...

Cyberspace across the Sahara: computing in North Africa.
December 1, 1995... Spanning 7.2 million square kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and encompassing the Great Saharan Desert and Nile River Valley, North Africa embraces Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt....

Ethical concepts and information technology.(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... The fundamental aspects of classical and contemporary ethics, particularly as they apply to the use of IT, offer valuable lessons of professional conduct. Despite the explosion in information technology (IT) in the last 20 years, scholars,...

Managing user perceptions of Email privacy. (electronic mail)(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... Email users, expecting privacy, risk embarrassment, lawsuits, and worse. Why do email users perceive their communications to be private when email provides virtually no safeguards against privacy violations?(1) The ethical and legal...

The ethical and legal quandary of Email privacy. (electronic mail)(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... What should conscientious employees and their ethical employers expect? It's hard to say. How private are employees' email messages? The answer is unclear. This lack of clarity means that protection of employee email will be at the forefront...

Applying ethics to information technology issues.(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... The articles in this special section express a common theme: the use of information technology in society is creating a rather unique set of ethical issues that requires the making of new moral choices on the part of society and has spawned...

Accountability and computer decision systems.(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... Computer decision systems have become an integral part of the decision-making apparatus of many public and private organizations. In the U.S., decisions made by Congress and the executive branch are increasingly based on computer models that...

Values, personal information privacy, and regulatory approaches.(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... The relationships among nationality, cultural values, personal information privacy concerns, and information privacy regulation are examined in this article. Personal information privacy, "the ability of the individual to personally control...

Computing consequences: a framework for teaching ethical computing.(Ethics and Computer Use)
December 1, 1995... How to prepare tomorrow's professionals for questions that can't always be answered with faster, better, or more technology. A fundamental change in the computer science curriculum in the last decade is acknowledgement that the context in...