Societal and Ethical Structure of Computing

• Legal Systems
  • Legal frameworks
    • Legislation
      • Laws by which we live
• Impact of technological change
  • Design impacts
• Human equality
  • Diversity issues
  • Gender-related issues
  • International issues
  • Cultural issues
  • Other issues

• Ethical monitoring

• Professional Ethics
• Professional responsibility
  • Professional risk
    • Liability
    • Malpractice
  • Maintaining expectations
    • Fitness for purpose
    • Timelyness
    • Secureness
    • Clean code delivery
    • Functional code delivery
  • Professional status
    • Workplace issues
  • User behavior
    • User responsibilities
    • User rights
• Intellectual property
  • Software piracy
    • Copyright
    • Patent
    • Trademarks
• Contracts
  • Software Licenses

• Civil liberties
  • Censorship
  • Rights of expression
  • Other
• Privacy
  • Data protection
    • Personal data repositories
      • Medical databases
      • Student records databases
      • Other systems storing personal data
  • Other privacy issues
• Ethics
  • Ethical frameworks
    • Codes of Ethics
    • Codes of conduct
    • Codes of practice
    • Professional credentialing
  • Ethical theories
  • Ethical analysis methods
  • Morality
  • Ethical dissent
    • Acts of Conscience
    • Whistle-blowing
• Community values
• Commercial practices
  • • Business models
      • Open Source philosophy
      • Proprietary
    • Restrictive practices
      • Monopoly
      • Oligopoly
      • Other restrictive practices
• Ethical analysis
  • Evaluating ethical arguments
  • Making ethical arguments
  • Political controls
    • Internet access
    • Internet control
    • Other controls