@article{ref1,
title="The struggle between liberties and authorities in the information age",
journal="Science and engineering ethics",
year="2014",
author="Taddeo, Mariarosaria",
volume="21",
number="5",
pages="1125-1138",
abstract="The &quot;struggle between liberties and authorities&quot;, as described by Mill, refers to the tension between individual rights and the rules restricting them that are imposed by public authorities exerting their power over civil society. In this paper I argue that contemporary information societies are experiencing a new form of such a struggle, which now involves liberties and authorities in the cyber-sphere and, more specifically, refers to the tension between cyber-security measures and individual liberties. Ethicists, political philosophers and political scientists have long debated how to strike an ethically sound balance between security measures and individual rights. I argue that such a balance can only be reached once individual rights are clearly defined, and that such a definition cannot prescind from an analysis of individual well-being in the information age. Hence, I propose an analysis of individual well-being which rests on the capability approach, and I then identify a set of rights that individuals should claim for themselves. Finally, I consider a criterion for balancing the proposed set of individual rights with cyber-security measures in the information age.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-3452",
doi="10.1007/s11948-014-9586-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9586-0"
}