CIS3250 Final Exam Study Guide
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The final is comprehensive, so much of the material from the midterm will
be covered. The final covers all of the textbook.

Reading
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You should be lightly familiar with  Plato's Euthyphro: who are the
participants, and the essential tension between laws, their enforcement,
and ethics. You should be able to recognize the Mill and Kant passages;
I will ask you to identify excerpts from each of these.

Topical areas
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  Normative formulations:  principles, formulations, and Spinello's take 
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  Utilitarianism
  Ethical egoism
  Contractarianism
  Principlism
  Virtue systems
  Deontological systems

  Legal systems versus ethical systems
  Crimes of being: attainder, in rem forfeiture
  Tools can be used for good purposes and for bad purposes

  Falsifiability
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  Definition, application in the sciences, questions about its limitations

  History
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  People: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Boole, Selden

  Professional ethics
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  Does "computer ethics" exist as a separate field of 
    study from ethics in general? If so, why?
  Codes of ethics: ACM, LOPSA, ACS, Archimedean Oath
  Professional development: how to stay up-to-date with developing ethical
    issues in technology, and new developments in relevant laws and
    regulations.
  Issues in writing and publishing code, Lessig's and Spinello's
    formulations.

  Societal sphere and computer ethics
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  Digital sovereignty
  Censorship; doxxing
  Digital vigilanteism; Wikileaks, 419eater, hacktivism
  China's implementation of a "social credit" system
  Surveillance capitalism
  Digital totalitarianism as practiced by China, North Korea,
    Khazakstan, and other nation-states.
  Pervasive Surveillance, panopticon
    Panopticon: Bentham, Gandy's "panoptic sort", digital panopticons
  Encryption: ethical and legal issues
  Artificial intelligence: Project Debater, robotics
  Legal concepts: in rem proceedings, attainder; violations of
    law versus ethical transgressions; the development and importance
    of preambles, from Hammurabi and Plato to the present day
  Important people in the historical development of computer science:
    Pascal, Boole, Dodgson, Frege, Russell, Whitehead, Godel,
    von Neumann, Shannon, Turing, Church, Curry

    Privacy
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    Different societies have different concerns; GDPR
    What kind of legal formulations exist with regard to privacy both
      here in the United States and other places throughout the world;
    Google and Project Dragonfly
    Encryption and its dilemmas; government concerns and reactions
      about encryption; CALEA
    Cross-device tracking
    Cookies

    Intellectual property
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    Legal formulations
    Ethical bases offered for intellectual property
    Digital rights management
    Berne Convention, WIPO
    Copyright
    Patents
      Patent "trolls"; Selden patent
    First sale doctrine
    DRM