Preface: Ethics in the Cyber Age and exploring emerging themes and relationships between ethics, governance and emerging technologies

This is special section comprises nine selected papers from the 8th Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE) conference, held in Melbourne, 19-20th August 2019. Of the many papers presented the authors of these papers were invited to extend their arguments from the short conference paper to a full-length journal article. They all then underwent at least one round of review through the AJIS system, before being accepted for this special section. The AiCE 2019 Program Committee were invited to be the joint guest editors of this special section.