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Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law

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Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 394))

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Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have been widely used in the domains of computer security and computer forensics. One problem that normative discussions of technologies face is that the technical capabilities under investigation tend to be unclear and that the experts in normative questions do not tend to be experts in technical developments and vice versa. The present paper therefore sets out to chart the ethical and legal problems arising from a new and fast moving field, namely that of computational intelligence and its application to computer security and forensics. Using artificial neural networks (ANNs) as an example of computational intelligence, the paper’s main aim is to create a link between what can now be perceived as technical developments and established discourses in ethics and the law. It aims to chart the territory to highlight likely ethical and legal problems related to ANNs and point in the direction of future research.

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  1. Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University Faculty of Technology Department of Informatics, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom

    Bernd Stahl, Moira Carroll-Mayer & Kutoma Wakunuma

  2. Cyber Security Centre, De Montfort University Faculty of Technology Department of Computing Technology, The Gateway, LE1 9BH, Leicester, United Kingdom

    David Elizondo

  3. School of Management Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Surrey, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

    Yingqin Zheng

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Stahl, B., Carroll-Mayer, M., Elizondo, D., Wakunuma, K., Zheng, Y. (2012). Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law. In: Elizondo, D., Solanas, A., Martinez-Balleste, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25237-2_14

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