scholarly journals Information ethics and the law of data representations

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan L. Burk
Keyword(s):  
Information Ethics ◽  
Data Representations ◽  
The Law

scholarly journals Information Ethics and the Law of Data Representations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Burk
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Data Representations ◽  
Information Law ◽  
Theory Of Information ◽  
The Law ◽  
Performance Statistics

The theories of information ethics articulated by Luciano Floridi and his collaborators have clear implications for law. Information law, including the law of privacy and of intellectual property, is especially likely to benefit from a coherent and comprehensive theory of information ethics. This article illustrates how information ethics might apply to legal doctrine, by examining legal questions related to the ownership and control of the personal data representations, including photographs, game avatars, and consumer profiles, that have become ubiquitous with the proliferation of information and communication technologies. Recent controversy over the control of player performance statistics in "fantasy" sports leagues provides a limiting case for the analysis. Such data representations will in many instances constitute the kind of personal data that information ethics asserts constitutes an information entity. Legal doctrine in some instances proves sympathetic to such an assertion, but remains largely inchoate as to which data might constitute a given information entity in a given instance. Neither is information ethics, in its current state of development, entirely helpful in answering this critical question. While information ethics holds some promise to bring coherence to this area of the law, further work articulating a richer theory of information ethics will be necessary before it can do so.

Ethical Challenges: Less About Moral Wrongdoing and More About Communication Breakdown

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Leslie ◽  
Mary Casper
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Thickened Liquids ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
Professional Duty ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The Law ◽  
Personal Case

“My patient refuses thickened liquids, should I discharge them from my caseload?” A version of this question appears at least weekly on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Community pages. People talk of respecting the patient's right to be non-compliant with speech-language pathology recommendations. We challenge use of the word “respect” and calling a patient “non-compliant” in the same sentence: does use of the latter term preclude the former? In this article we will share our reflections on why we are interested in these so called “ethical challenges” from a personal case level to what our professional duty requires of us. Our proposal is that the problems that we encounter are less to do with ethical or moral puzzles and usually due to inadequate communication. We will outline resources that clinicians may use to support their work from what seems to be a straightforward case to those that are mired in complexity. And we will tackle fears and facts regarding litigation and the law.

The Law and Malnutrition: Strange Bedfellows

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
I. Campbell-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
The Law

Abortion and the Law in America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
The Law
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document