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Ethics and IS

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The Ethics of IS

Ethics and PrivacyEthical IssuesLaw & Order

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Security & Ethical Challenges

PrivacyAccuracyPropertyAccessHuman Impacts

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Ethical Considerations

Ethical Principles Proportionality Informed Consent Justice Minimized Risk

Standard of Conduct Act with integrity Protect the information

privacy & confidentiality Do not misrepresent or

withhold information Do not misuse resources Do not exploit weakness

of systems Advance the health and

welfare of general public

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Ethical Issues

Privacy Internet privacy Corporate email Matching

Accuracy Credit card accounts Student Records

Property Intellectual property Software piracy Identity Theft Who owns the

bandwidth? Access

Who can see it? Who should see it? Can everybody with

appropriate rights get access to see it?

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Privacy Issues

IT makes it technically and economically feasible to collect, store, integrate, interchange, and retrieve data and information quickly and easily. Benefit – increases efficiency and

effectiveness But, may also have a negative effect on

individual’s right to privacy Accessing private e-mail and computer

records & sharing information about individuals gained from their visits to websites and newsgroups

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Privacy Issues

Always knowing where a person is via mobile and paging services

Computer Matching Computer profiling and matching personal data to

that profile Mistakes can be a major problem

Protect your privacy by Encrypting your messages Post to newsgroups through anonymous re-mailers Ask your ISP not to sell your information to mailing

list providers and other marketers Decline to reveal personal data and interests online

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Computer Libel and Censorship(The opposite side of the privacy debate)

Right to know (freedom of information) Right to express opinions (freedom of

speech) Right to publish those opinions

(freedom of the press) Spamming Flaming Anonymity of domain ownership From where did my campaign funds

come?

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Human Impacts

Employee Monitoring (especially online)

Deskilling (robotic welders) Intellectual Property Protection (Napster or KaZaA)

Human Control (Airbus Fly-by-Wire)

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Computer Monitoring

Concerns workplace privacy Monitors individuals, not just work Is done continually. May be seen as

violating workers’ privacy & personal freedom

Workers may not know that they are being monitored or how the information is being used

May increase workers’ stress level May rob workers of the dignity of their work

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Health Issues

Job stressMuscle damageEye strainRadiation exposureAccidentsErgonomic design to ameliorate these problems

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E-mail Monitoring

“Spot checks just aren’t good enough anymore. The tide is turning toward systematic monitoring of corporate e-mail traffic using content-monitoring software that scans for troublesome words that might compromise corporate security.”

Widespread monitoring of email Magic Lantern Carnivore

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Law & Order

Irony of a private person being accessible by so many

It’s always been doable; just not this easily (see examples throughout the episode)

Worms Privacy and the law Who’s morally responsible for how

information is used? If your software or service is used by

somebody as a means to kill another, who’s responsible?