This seminar deals with ethical issues that are caused by today's information society. Each participating student holds a scientific talk on one of these problems and hosts a discussion of the topic. The seminar's focus, however, lies on giving encouraging and persuasive presentations that are interesting and easy to understand. To achieve this, the participants will learn from some the best (and worst) speakers by analyzing short videos of their talks and by collaboratively developing guidelines for sticky presentations.

Preconditions:
This course is part of the Informatik seminar program. In order to pass it, you will need to attend to the seminar presentations in PK 11.2 on January 30th at 13:15. Due to increased demand we will have two master seminar groups and a bachelor seminar group this semester. This is the master seminar website.

Topics:
The topics of this seminar include (but are not limited to) the following areas (similar topics are grouped together):

• Pseudonymization (e.g. AOL Data Leak)
• Deep Packet Inspection (e.g. issues with german Fernmeldegesetz), Post-Privacy, Bundestrojaner, Gläserner Bürger
• Boundaries of Data Mining (e.g. Massachussetts Health Records)
• Copyright Infringements (e.g. Napster, Megaupload)
• Virusses and Worms (e.g. Stuxnet), DDOS Attacks (protest or vandalism?)
• Wikileaks, Internet censorship
• Removing data from the Internet (e.g. Star-Wars Kid, Streisand-Effect)
• Cyber war (dehumanization)
• Klout score
• Anonymity on the internet, Identity theft, Cyberbullying
• Bring your own device – bring your own time?
• Profiling (e.g. location based services, digital traces)
• Digital divide
• Netzneutralität

Further information:
We wrote some blog posts that might be interesting for participants:

• A blog post on a podcast introducing Big Data
• A blog post about a microsoft research prediction engine for this year's Oscars that illustrates what can be done with Big Data.

Additionally, there are more interesting links on information society ethics:

• Google Glasses impact on information privacy
• Profiling using Facebook likes
• Frank Rieger über die aktuell Technik von Drohnen
• Netflix ISP Speed Ranking (Netzneutralität)
• Chaosradio Podcast on Post-Privacy
• Visualization of location data from "Vorratsdatenspeicherung"
• Deutsche Telekom verletzt Netzneutralität
• Christian Heller als Beführworter von Post-Privacy
• Chaos Radio Express Podcast (02:17:56) zu Post-Privacy
• Gartner: 2017 ist "Bring Your Own Device" flächendeckend (Heise)