The virtuous spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit

Monist

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-22

  Allen, Anita L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 67650577048     PISSN: 00269662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/monist200891110     Document Type: Article

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2. Anita L. Allen, Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Responsibility (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)
3. Jan Goldman, Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006)
4. http://plato.thefreelibrarv.com/Republic/2-12
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9. Plaxico v. Michael, 735 So. 2d 1036 (Miss., 1999)
10. The Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) struck down all state laws criminalizing homosexual sex acts between consenting adults, including sodomy laws
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12. The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce commenced hearings on the HP debacle on September 28, 2006. California attorney general Bill Lockyer filed felony charges against HP officials and their investigators for identity theft, use of fraud to obtain public records, unauthorized access to computers, and conspiracy. Colorado private investigator, Bryan Wagner, was the first to plead guilty. See Associated Press, "H.P. Investigator Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft and Conspiracy," The New York Times, January 13,2007, Sec. C, Col. 1. Charges against Ms. Dunn were dropped
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15. Eric Lictblau and David Johnson, "Court to Oversee U.S. Wiretapping in Terror Cases," The New York Times, January 18, 2007. Sec. A, Col. 6, p. 1