"Digital Ethics is recent. (...) in the meantime, ethical issues dealing with the impact of digitization on society are daily topic of newspapers and journals worldwide. This public debate mirrors the moral and legal changes in society.
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Digital Ethics is a special field of Information Ethics that embraces ethical issues of information and communication beyond the ones raised by digitalization. Digital Ethics is closely related to, for instance, Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Business Ethics.
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and it undertakes a critical reflection about ourselves in a world shaped by digital technology. It was developed since the 1940s by pioneers like Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) and Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008). It was first called computer ethics and dealt mainly with professional issues of computer scientists although Wiener and Weizenbaum were well aware that the ethical issues about the impact of computer technology concerned society as a whole and not just a profession (Bynum 2015). This became particularly clear when the concept of information society became popular in the 1980s.
In 1997 UNESCO held the first International Congress on Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Digital Information (INFOethics).
ITU (International Telecommunication Union) took care of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held 2003 in Geneva and 2005 in Tunisia.
During the last fifteen years, professional societies dealing with ethical issues of IT were created such as INSEIT (International Society for Ethics and IT) or the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE).
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The present debate about the dangers of robotization takes place around drones (Marsiske et al. 2012) as well as about the issues arising from the massive use of digital devices for surveillance and the question about how far do we want to delegate personal responsibility to algorithms for instance in the case of driverless cars.
The ethical debate turns then into a debate about freedom versus security as well as between autonomy versus heteronomy.
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...rules of fair play at national and international level are needed more than never. And we need institutions and forms of political debate dealing with ethical and legal issues of the information society."
Rafael Capurro, 2016, in "Digitization as an ethical challenge"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-016-0686-z
http://www.capurro.de
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The European Commission has published (May 2017) a Eurobarometer survey presenting European citizens' opinions on the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/attitudes-towards-impact-digitisation-and-automation-daily-life
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