This book provides an up-to-date discussion of the main ethical issues that face today's information-intensive society, including the areas of intellectual property rights, privacy, accessibility and censorship. The explosive growth of information technology, increased competition in the global...

Accountability operates implicitly in the fields of public administration and corporate governance. Accountability imperatives drive the law of tort and crime. Accountability should not and cannot be total in any domain short of dystopia. Still, in every sector of society a degree of...