Overview of Ethical Issues in Digital Watermarking
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AGBAJE Michael
Publication Type: Journal article
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Abstract
Ethics has to do with moral principles that control or influence a person’s behavior. Research ethics has taken a prime position in the process of research. Digital watermarking as a technology that embeds information, in machine-readable form, within the content of a digital media file could raise privacy issues if deployed in ways that fail to take privacy into account. Digital watermarking can be applied to different applications including digital signatures, fingerprinting, broadcast and publication monitoring, authentication, copy control, and secret communication. This paper brings to view various ethical concerns of digital watermarking such as privacy, piracy, deception and anonymity.