Ethical Computing for Mitigating Hyperconnectivity Threats

Many of the problems arising from a technology-driven information-intensive environment that could have been avoided occur because we are either insensitive to or ignorant of their ethical implications. Consequently, data protection remains a chronic, expensive nightmare despite the big speeding on cybersecurity. Ethical computing can play a role in identifying the ethical issues, key stakeholders, and reaching a near-ideal solution vis-à-vis an ideal solution. Hyperconnectivity threats that inherit all the IoT threats plus all the vulnerabilities of the physical objects and virtual subsystems that IoT connects (subsumed under the heads of security and privacy) to serve some purposeful objectives change not the environment but intensify the urgency for a remedy. Ethical computing is assistive in reaching that near-ideal solution.