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How do you stop online students cheating?
Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to...
How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
In part 15 of our multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, Edward Spence argues that the modern world is crying out for a return to classical...
The ethics of internet piracy
Last year, I told a colleague that I would include internet ethics in a course that I was teaching. She suggested that I read a recently published...
Internet ethics in an online world
‘Internet ethics in an online world’ (video), Peter Singer
Vicious threats of an online mob rescue no children
As mourners rebuild a burnt-down shrine dedicated to the Mount Druitt girl Kiesha Abrahams, who went missing in August last year, others have taken...
Worse than jail: sentenced to life on YouTube
In the digital age, there's a new controversial punishment for crime – sentenced to a lifetime of embarrassment on YouTube. Our story yesterday...
World's dirtiest hotel? Are you for real?
Since it was founded in 2000, TripAdvisor.com has revolutionised the way people buy travel online by giving them access to reviews of accommodation...
The Day The Internet Threw A Righteous Hissyfit About Copyright And Pie
So you might have heard a story yesterday about a little magazine called Cooks Source. Up until then, you might never have heard of Cooks Source. But...
German ministers slam Facebook for privacy glitch
German ministers criticised social networking site Facebook on Sunday for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that...
Technology is only as malicious as the user
When technology is the preferred answer, nobody asks the difficult questions. The tragic suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi last...
Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant?
The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it's a search-and-destroy weapon meant to...
Privacy: The clash of data civilisations
Sharply differing attitudes towards privacy in Europe and America are a headache for the world’s internet giants. Watchdogs are growling at the...
Calls for internet access to be enshrined as a fundamental right
Internet use has become so woven into everyday life that some technology experts say online access should be legally protected, even to the point of...
Internet and social media behavior 101
We can stop our rude, crude, online ways through a new era of Internet etiquette and by using tools that give us time to cool off. We’re rude...
Dicing with data
Google and especially Facebook should change the way they look after people’s personal information In the space of a week two of the best-known...
Governments should not censor the internet
The proposed interner filter takes us down a dangerous path of repression favoured by regimes such as Iran's. Photo: AFP We live under the illusion...
Wrong Deveny, Twitter is not just passing notes
Twitter was a vital news tool for green demonstrators against the government during Iran's last election. Photo: Reuters Whatever you think of...
Google: an anti-capitalist scapegoat?
Founded in 1998 by a pair of Stanford PhD students and initially housed, true to Silicon Valley start-up tradition, in a suburban garage, Google is...
Google: a company of contradictions
Google is a company of contradictions. It claims to be open, but guards its secrets fiercely. It presents itself as a green company, but owns the...
Game on: Aussies have their say on R18+ video games
Should Australian adults have the right to buy computer games featuring high-level violence, sexual content or illegal drug use? The Federal...
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