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- Title
The Two-Tiered Ethics of EDP.
- Authors
Byrne, Edmund F.
- Abstract
Ethical questions regarding access to and use of electronically generated data are (if asked) commonly resolved by distinguishing in Lockean fashion between raw (unworked) and refined (worked) data. The former is thought to belong to no one, the latter to the collector and those to whom the collector grants access. Comparative power separates free riders from rightful owners. The resulting two-tiered ethics of access is here challenged on the grounds that it inequitably establishes a rule of law for the strong while leaving the weak in a Hobbesian state of nature. Efforts at legislative constraints are reviewed; but such constraints are found to afford inadequate protections of privacy if a data subject may not prohibit others under ordinary circumstances from using recognizably name-linked data.
- Subjects
INFORMATION ethics; ELECTRONIC data processing; BUSINESS ethics; PRIVACY; ELECTRONIC information resource searching; INFORMATION resources management; INFORMATION sharing; ELECTRONIC information resources; DATABASES; MANAGEMENT of public goods; FREE-rider problem; ETHICS
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 1995, Vol 14, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00873736