ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Luciano Floridi’s information ethics and provides the conceptual framework that will be used to develop an informational approach to cyber attacks and the law on the use of force. It explores the key principles and concepts of information ethics, as well as the criticisms that have been levelled against it. The tension between nature and technology, together with their relationship with humans, is a prominent theme in the philosophy of technology. Since the late 1990s, various aspects of a philosophy of technology based on information have been developed in Floridi’s work. Floridi’s information ethics provides a framework that is concerned with the ethical impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on human life and society. In a world in which societies are increasingly pervaded by and reliant on ICTs, information ethics provides a form of environmental ethics that takes this reality into account.
