Respect for persons,identity, and information technology |
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| Authors: | Robin S Dillon |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Health Sciences Center Institute for Ethics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA;(2) Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057-1212, USA;(3) Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA |
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| Abstract: | There is surprisingly little attention in Information Technology ethics to respect for persons, either as an ethical issue
or as a core value of IT ethics or as a conceptual tool for discussing ethical issues of IT. In this, IT ethics is very different
from another field of applied ethics, bioethics, where respect is a core value and conceptual tool. This paper argues that
there is value in thinking about ethical issues related to information technologies, especially, though not exclusively, issues
concerning identity and identity management, explicitly in terms of respect for persons understood as a core value of IT ethics.
After explicating respect for persons, the paper identifies a number of ways in which putting the concept of respect for persons
explicitly at the center of both IT practice and IT ethics could be valuable, then examines some of the implicit and problematic
assumptions about persons, their identities, and respect that are built into the design, implementation, and use of information
technologies and are taken for granted in discussions in IT ethics. The discussion concludes by asking how better conceptions
of respect for persons might be better employed in IT contexts or brought better to bear on specific issues concerning identity
in IT contexts. |
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