Sacred Heart University DigitalCommons@SHU Computer Science & Information Technology Computer Science & Information Technology Faculty Publications 3-2002 Some Ethical Reflections on Cyberstalking Frances Grodzinsky Sacred Heart University,
[email protected] Herman T. Tavani Rivier College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/computersci_fac Part of the Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Commons, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Commons, and the Privacy Law Commons Recommended Citation Grodzinsky, Frances, Tavani, Herman T. "Some Ethical Reflections on Cyberstalking." ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 32.1 (2002): 22-32. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Computer Science & Information Technology at DigitalCommons@SHU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science & Information Technology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@SHU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Some Ethical Reflections on Cyberstalking Frances S. Grodzinsky Sacred Heart University has come to be associated with one individual ("the <grodzinskyf@sacredhearcedu> stalker ~) clandestinely tracking the movement and whereabouts of an another individual or individuals Herman T. Tavani ("the stalkee[s]~). Rivier College <
[email protected]> Cyberstalking can be understood as a form of behav- ior in which certain types of stalking-related activi- ties, which in the past have occurred in physical space, Abstract are extended to the online world. On the one hand, The present study examines • range of moral issues asso- we do not wish to claim that cyberstalking is a new ciated with recent cyberstalking cases. Particular atten- kind of crime or that it is a "genuine computer crime" tion is centered on the Amy Boyer/Liam Youens case of (see Tavani, 2000).