Ethical Issues in Information Technology
Ethical Issues in Information Technology
The society develops with unbelievable speed, from telegraphy, telephone, radio of 19th century to the modern 21th century, which is the Age with rapid developing and growing of knowledge and information. For example, Internet has been used widely everywhere in the world. We call it “global, Web-based platform, this platform enables people to connect, compute, communicate, compete, and collaborate anywhere, anytime to access limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment”(Rainer & Cegielski, 2011 ). It is so obvious Information technologies benefit us a lot; in the meantime, IT also can raise new ethical problems. Ethics is a system of moral principles, or branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such action. They include responsibilities, accountability and liability. “The major ethical issues related to IT are privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility to information” (Rainer & Cegielski, 2011). Privacy is the state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion. Now the right to privacy is considered by federal government as common law.
Solution
Usually after huge damages or losses of some individuals, organizations or institutions, government comes up some privacy act for regulation and protection purposes. Privacy policies are an organization’s guidelines for protecting the privacy of customers, clients and employees. They are an attempt to reduce crimes such as privacy, copyright infringement; identity thief. The U.S. Congress implemented Acts address the ethical issues necessitating the creation of the acts and the advances in it. Let’s see the following examples.
Do Not Call Implementation Act
We know organizations are able to collect, integrate, and distribute enormous amounts of information on individuals, groups, and institutions through
The society develops with unbelievable speed, from telegraphy, telephone, radio of 19th century to the modern 21th century, which is the Age with rapid developing and growing of knowledge and information. For example, Internet has been used widely everywhere in the world. We call it “global, Web-based platform, this platform enables people to connect, compute, communicate, compete, and collaborate anywhere, anytime to access limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment”(Rainer & Cegielski, 2011 ). It is so obvious Information technologies benefit us a lot; in the meantime, IT also can raise new ethical problems. Ethics is a system of moral principles, or branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such action. They include responsibilities, accountability and liability. “The major ethical issues related to IT are privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility to information” (Rainer & Cegielski, 2011). Privacy is the state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion. Now the right to privacy is considered by federal government as common law.
Solution
Usually after huge damages or losses of some individuals, organizations or institutions, government comes up some privacy act for regulation and protection purposes. Privacy policies are an organization’s guidelines for protecting the privacy of customers, clients and employees. They are an attempt to reduce crimes such as privacy, copyright infringement; identity thief. The U.S. Congress implemented Acts address the ethical issues necessitating the creation of the acts and the advances in it. Let’s see the following examples.
Do Not Call Implementation Act
We know organizations are able to collect, integrate, and distribute enormous amounts of information on individuals, groups, and institutions through