Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology -

Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology

Emerging Challenges at the Frontiers of Counter-Terrorism
Buch | Softcover
XVI, 221 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-90223-0 (ISBN)
42,79 inkl. MwSt

This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies. Whether it is the use of remote weapons like drones as part of counter-terrorism strategies, the application of surveillance technologies to monitor and respond to terrorist activities, or counterintelligence agencies use of machine learning to detect suspicious behavior and hacking computers to gain access to encrypted data, technologies play a significant role in modern counter-terrorism. However, each of these technologies carries with them a range of ethical issues and challenges. How we use these technologies and the policies that govern them have broader impact beyond just the identification and response to terrorist activities. As we are seeing with China, the need to respond to domestic terrorism is one of the justifications for their rollout of the "social credit system." Counter-terrorism technologies can easily succumb to mission creep, where a technology's exceptional application becomes normalized and rolled out to society more generally. This collection is not just timely but an important contribution to understand the ethics of counter-terrorism and technology and has far wider implications for societies and nations around the world.

lt;p>Dr Adam Henschke is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer with the Crawford School of Public Policy, at the Australian National University, and a Senior Researcher at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, working on the European Research Council advanced grant project Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility, of which this book is a part. Adam works on areas of ethics, technology, and security policy. His research interests include ethics of surveillance technologies, human enhancement technologies, propaganda, intelligence, and the ethics of counter-terrorism. He is currently researching the ethics of the internet of things, and other issues arising with cyber-physical systems, and evolving ethical challenges with information warfare. His most recent edited books include the Palgrave Handbook of National Security (co-edited with Michael Clarke, Matthew Sussex, and Tim Legrand) and Counter-Terrorism: The Ethical Issues (co-edited with Seumas Miller and Jonas Feltes).

Dr Alastair Reed is the Executive Director of the RESOLVE Network, housed at the United States Institute of Peace, and an associate professor at the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University in the UK. Previously he was a Senior Researcher at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, working on the ERC advanced grant project Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility, of which this book is a part. A researcher in the fields of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, he has provided policy advice and training to a wide range of government and international organisations. Alastair's research interests cover foreign fighters, radicalization, terrorist and insurgent strategy, propaganda, and strategic communications. His current area of focus is on understanding and responding to terrorist and extremist propaganda, and addressing the challenges of countering terrorist and extremist propaganda online. His work has been published in Defence Strategic Communications Journal, RUSI Journal, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Internet Policy Review. 

Scott Robbins is a Ph.D. researcher at the Technical University of Delft, focusing on the ethics of using artificial intelligence in the context of counter-terrorism. He also researches the ethics surrounding bulk data collection for policing and counter-terrorism. He is a part of the ERC advanced grant research project entitled Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility. He has published peer-reviewed articles on the ethics of artificial intelligence and ethics for the design of new technologies. He is a founding organizing committee member of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and a member of the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science (cum laude) and a Master's of Science in ethics and technology (cum laude).

1. Drones As A Tool In Counter-Terrorism.- 2. Deception Strategies In Autonomous Warfare.- 3. Rethinking Drones As Terrorist Weapons.- 4. Proportionality, Surveillance And Counter-Terrorism.- 5. Privacy, Encryption And Counter-Terrorism.- 6. The Rise Of The Modern Intelligence State.- 7. Acceptability Of Bulk Facial Recognition for Counter-Terrorism: The Case For A Total Ban.- 8. "No cracks, no blind spots, no gaps": Technologically-enabled "Preventive" Counterterrorism and Mass Repression in Xinjiang, China.- 9. Media Ecologies, On-Line Radicalisation And Bottom-Up CVE Approaches.- 10. The Ethics of Regulating Extremist Content Online.- 11. Terrorism And The Internet Of Things: Cyberterrorism Will Happen.- 12. Violent Non State Actors And The Technology Adoption Curve.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
Zusatzinfo XVI, 221 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 373 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte Artificial Intelligence and Counter-terrorism • Bulk Data Collection Terrorism • Counter-terrorism Ethics • Ethics of Technology • open access • Social Media and Terrorism • Terrorism and technology
ISBN-10 3-030-90223-4 / 3030902234
ISBN-13 978-3-030-90223-0 / 9783030902230
Zustand Neuware
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