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Ethics across the computer science curriculum: Privacy modules in an introductory database course

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This paper describes the author’s experience of infusing an introductory database course with privacy content, and the on-going project entitled Integrating Ethics Into the Database Curriculum, that evolved from that experience. The project, which has received funding from the National Science Foundation, involves the creation of a set of privacy modules that can be implemented systematically by database educators throughout the database design thread of an undergraduate course.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Xavier University, 3700 W. 103rd St., 60655, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Florence Appel (Associate Professor of Computer Science)

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Appel, F. Ethics across the computer science curriculum: Privacy modules in an introductory database course. SCI ENG ETHICS 11, 635–644 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-005-0031-2

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