Category: Ethics – threats and hope
The ethics of secret intelligence is a threat. Agencies have obsessive secrecy, hidden agendas, a lack of duty-of-care, a failure of norms and bad introversion. And from that, come other ethical challenges.
This website includes stories and themes that illustrate challenges, and explore ways of improving it.
Person lurking by Zone Sierra. Nervous movement, potential improvised explosive device. The automated intelligence analysis flashed on Tessa’s …
Intelligence agencies have introverted thinking. They adapt to new threats & technology, but their attitudes are a danger …
Secret intelligence can hurt the innocent. Intelligence workers should have a duty of care to everyone with whom …
Intelligence processes were introduced for the State to gain advantage over its adversaries. But states have hidden agendas, …
They arrived without warning in José’s office. A high court judge, a policewoman from Operational Security, and a …
The professor stared at the words Top Secret on the analysis report. She lifted it and read the …
Hidden Beyond Detection is a spy thriller set in 2014. It follows Akila Sinclair, a young intelligence analyst …
‘Is he actually proposing a kill order? That we should become involved in an assassination?’ The intelligence researcher’s …
The forced confession was in stilted Arabic with words that the suspect never used, and the recording from …
‘She’s a journalist, that makes her guilty,’ the intelligence officer declared. ‘Get me evidence for intrusive surveillance and …