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LIT-1618: Accountability in a computerized society

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StatusUnfetched — searched 2026-10-29 for a lawful full text; the author's own copy exists but this client could not fetch it, so it is not read and no NOTE is filed. Nissenbaum's Cornell Tech site hosts it at https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/accountability.pdf (found by web search, 2026-10-29). curl failed TLS verification on that host ("self-signed certificate in certificate chain") and WebFetch got HTTP 503 from it and from the site's front page. OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar report the Springer article closed; the CiteSeerX record (10.1.1.40.77) redirects to the Wayback Machine, which reset the connection; the Georgetown handle 10822/890901 returned 404; the old NYU copy at nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/accountability.pdf returned 403. ResearchGate has no full text. The failure is on access, not availability. A browser fetch of the Cornell copy is the cheapest way to read it. It stays Unfetched until a copy is supplied.
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Nissenbaum, H. (1996). Accountability in a computerized society. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2(1), 25–42. doi:10.1007/bf02639315.

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A8 offered it as a complement to Thompson on how responsibility is obscured across designers, operators, organizations and overseers, with an application to the contractors and data systems of CASE-172. The record holds other Nissenbaum work (QUESTION-071) but not this.

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