Four Ethics Links: June 14, 2010
Four ethics links is a review of recent stories in applied ethics. This week: Privacy for Animals, Ethics for Extraterrestrials, iPhone Obsession, and Stolen DNA.
1. Do animals need privacy?
Brett Mills at the University of East Anglia suggests that the ethics of the media and privacy should be extended beyond humans to the animal world. He says it might be acceptable to film "public events" such as animals hunting - but questions more intrusive recording. For humans, he says, it is assumed that documentary makers would need consent to go into people's private lives, but no such boundary exists for wildlife filmmakers.
Albrecht Dürer, Young Hare
