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The computer technologies are so pervasively today that they pose some urgent and difficult ethical and juridical problems. Computer technologies are revealing more disruptive than others have been in the past, so much that the contemporary world seems taking shape a new form under their imprinting. Technologies are the fruit of the historical time that produces them: society is not only conformed by the technology but, in turn, it conforms the society. The relationship between technology and normative apparatus is therefore complex, and understanding this complexity pretend to be equipped with an interdisciplinary formation and culture. Computer and Information Ethics deals with these complex aspects, fundamental for the jurist, but also for the engineer, the physicist, the physician or the economist. It deals with a new jaw of the applied ethics studying ethical and social impact of the ICTs in all the circles of interest. The study of the discipline is facing to offer a series of fit ethical and philosophical competences to the students.