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Ethics: Principles of right and wrong that can be usedby individuals acting as free moral agents to makechoicesto guide their behavior
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1. Ethical, social, and political issues are raised by informationsystems.
2. There are specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide
decisions about ethical dilemmas.
3. Information systems affected everyday life.
4. Organizations can develop corporate policies for ethical
conduct.
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1. Understanding the moral risks of new technology
2. Establishing corporate ethics policies that includeinformation systems issues
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Accountability and control
System quality
Quality of life
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C
omputing power doubles every month
Data analysis advances
Networking advances and the internet
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1. Information technologies are filtered throughsocial institutions, organizations, individuals
2. Responsibility falls on institutions,organizations, and individuals who choose touse the technology
3. In an ethical, political society, individuals andothers can recover damages done to themthrough a set of laws
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Five-step Process forAnalysis
1. Identify and describe clearly the facts.
2. Define the conflict and identify the higher-order values
involved.
3. Identify the stakeholders.
4. Identify reasonable options.
5. Identify potential consequences of these options.
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Candidate Ethical Principles
1. The Golden Rule
2. Kants Categorical Imperative.
3. Descartes rule of change.
4. The Utilitarian Principle.
5. The Risk Aversion Principle.
6. Ethical no free lunch rule
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Competing values: one set of interests pitted against another
E-mail monitoring at the workplace
Use of new technology to reduce workforce and lower costs
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Federal Privacy Laws in the United States
General Federal Privacy Laws
Freedom ofInformation Act, 1966
PrivacyAct of1974
Electronic Communications PrivacyAct of1986
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of1988
Computer SecurityAct of1987
Federal Managers Financial IntegrityAct of1982
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Social Issues
Expectations of privacy, privacy norms.
Should people have expectations of privacy while using e-mail, cellularphones, bulletin boards, postal system, etc.?
Do expectations of privacy extend to criminal conspirators?
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Political Issues
Statutes to govern relationship between record keepers and individuals
Should FBI monitor e-mail?
Should e-commerce sites maintain personal data about individuals
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Intellectual Property
Intangible property created by individuals or corporations
Protected under three different legal traditions: trade secret, copyright,and patent law
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Computer crime: Commission of illegal acts through the useof a computer or against a computer system
Computer abuse: Commission of acts involving a computerthat may not be illegal but are considered unethical, i.e.spamming
Computer forensics: scientific collection and analysis ofdata held on or retrieved from computer storage media to be
used as evidence in court of law
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Spamming
Hacking
Jamming
Malicious software
Sniffing
Spoofing
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Information rights and obligations
Property rights and obligations
System quality
Quality of life
Accountability and control
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