Computers drastically change the scope of what's possible. They allow us to do things on scales that were unimaginable before. There are orders of magnitude mor

Computers drastically change the scope of what's possible. They allow us to do things on scales that were unimaginable before. There are orders of magnitude more data in Google's index than in every book that has ever existed. Heck, flip the question to the other side of the table — is government mass surveillance acceptable because it's OK for a police officer to overhear things? Regardless of where you stand on either issue, it seems pretty clear that the change of scope and scale can drastically change the moral calculus.