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Also in the mid 1960s computer enabled isvasions of privacy big brother government agencies became apublic worry and led to books articles government studies and proposed privacy legislation.By the mid 1970s new privacy laws and computer crime laws had been enacted in America and Europe and organisations of computer professionals were adopting codes on conduct for their members.At the same time ,MIT computer scientiset joseph weizenbaum crated a computer program Eliza,intended to crudely simulate a Rogerien psychotherapist engaged in intial interview with a patient .The simple program brought forth a host of appalling reactions some Psychiatists ,for example viewed his results as evidence that computers will soon provide automated psychotherapy and certain students and staff at MIT even became emotionally involved with the computer and shared their intimate thoughts with it concerned by the ethical implications of such response,weozeenbaum wrote the book Computer power and Humon reasons (1976),which is how considered a class in computer ethics.