Abstract
Whereas ICT-based services provide people and organisations with huge benefits in the current socio-economic and technological environment, it is concerned that the widespread use and social penetration of them would exert negative impacts on human existence and society in invisible and irretrievable fashion. Such manufactured risk includes alienation through the embodiment of personal information and disembodiment of individuals, dehumanisation brought about by the externalisation of human memory, and the collective development of the schizophrenic society. This study attempts to examine the nature of the manufactured risk and to propose policies to obviate social problems caused by the risk, based on the studies on computer/information ethics and sociology of risk.
