This module will examine certain ethical issues that arise from the impact of computerization on human life and society. In any given semester, questions that are relevant to this module will be selected from the wide range of those that are confronted by computer professionals, users, policy-makers, and generally the person on the street whose quality of life may either be enhanced or diminished as a result of wide-scale computerisation in a local or global context. Examples of topics that may be confronted are those pertaining to the moral obligations of the computer professional, the justification of intellectual property rights, and issues concerning hacking.
