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Relevant studies on online ethics place undue
reliance on spontaneously arising equilibrium
innervated by mutual surveillance among the people
involved (Rose-Redwood, 2006; Kawaguchi and
Kawaguchi, 2012). However, this view of this
exponential technological advance is over-optimistic
and ingenuous. GIS is only a device and tool. As the
Zushi murder case at the beginning of this article
shows, people can utilize the new technologies both
in good ways and bad. Further studies are clearly
essential to establish geographic information ethics
from a collaboration of relevant fields such as
information ethics, comparative jurisprudence,
geographical education as well as GIScience for
offering a clear-cut answer to this newly emerging
problem.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant
Number JP17H00839. Some parts of this article are
based on the following conference presentations
conducted by the author: the 63rd Annual
Conference of The Japanese Society for Ethics in
2012, the Kyoto Collegium for Bioethics in 2014,
the conferences of the Association of Japanese
Geographers in 2014 and 2015, and a keynote
speech at Hokuriku Geo-Spatial Forum 2017.
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