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TABLE OF CONTENTS PageExecutive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Society, Cyberspace and the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Dependence on Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Privacy vs. Freedom of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Access to Inappropriate Material/Censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Access and Equity: Promises and Hype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Recent Issues, Proposed Changes, and Lingering Problems . . . . . . . . . 9 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Other Ethical and Moral Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cybertrade, Romance, Hate, Terror and Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 More on Ethics and Ethical Decision-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Informational Privacy and Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 From Computer Ethics (“CE�

Principles have to be defined for the establishment of local or national policies that will, first of all, aim at curbing the organized hackers that steal personal data and transmit it to others as a source of revenues. Principles also need to be identified for the use of insidious software packages that track the movement on the Web and give out personal information.

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