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Privacy

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What are the ethical issues?

• Many of the ethical issues that face IT professionals involve privacy. For example:

• Is it OK to monitor the Web sites visited by your network users? Should you routinely keep logs of visited sites? Is it negligent to not monitor such Internet usage, to prevent the possibility of pornography in the workplace that could create a hostile work environment?

• Is it OK to place key loggers on machines on the network to capture everything the user types? What about screen capture programs so you can see everything that's displayed? Should users be informed that they're being watched in this way?

• Is it OK to read the documents and look at the graphics files that are stored on users' computers or in their directories on the file server?

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Summary

• This article has raised a lot of questions, but has not attempted to provide set answers. That's because, ultimately, the answer to the question "Is it ethical?" must be answered by each individual IT professional.

• beginning to be addressed. Voluntary professional associations such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have developed their own codes of ethics and professional conduct, which can serve as a guideline for individuals and other organizations.

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Sharing of Information

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Discuss the common ethical issues associated with sharing of Discuss the common ethical issues associated with sharing of informationinformationEthics and Sharing Personal InformationEthics and Sharing Personal InformationOne of the biggest ethical decisions young people have to make One of the biggest ethical decisions young people have to make is how to handle other people’s personal information. Because is how to handle other people’s personal information. Because nearly all of the services and platforms youth use online are nearly all of the services and platforms youth use online are networkednetworked, every time a friend or contact posts something they , every time a friend or contact posts something they have to decide whether and how to share it. As well, youth may have to decide whether and how to share it. As well, youth may inadvertently share others’ personal information when posting inadvertently share others’ personal information when posting their own content.their own content.

An Ethical Approach to Sharing Personal InformationAn Ethical Approach to Sharing Personal InformationWith younger children, the best approach is to have a clear and With younger children, the best approach is to have a clear and consistent set of rules, both at home and at school, about consistent set of rules, both at home and at school, about sharing other people’s content.sharing other people’s content.

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Commandment 4Commandment 4Issue Issue Discuss the common ethical issues associated with Discuss the common ethical issues associated with b) sharing of informationb) sharing of informationissues issues You shall not use a computer to steal.You shall not use a computer to steal. · · Do not use computer technology to steal information.Do not use computer technology to steal information. Explanation: Stealing sensitive information or leaking confidential infoExplanation: Stealing sensitive information or leaking confidential information is as good as robbery. It is wrong to acquire personal informatiormation is as good as robbery. It is wrong to acquire personal information of employees from an employee database or patient history from a hosn of employees from an employee database or patient history from a hospital database or other such information that is meant to be confidential. pital database or other such information that is meant to be confidential. Similarly, breaking into a bank account to collect information about the aSimilarly, breaking into a bank account to collect information about the account or account holder is wrong. Illegal electronic transfer of funds is a ccount or account holder is wrong. Illegal electronic transfer of funds is a type of fraud. With the use of technology, stealing of information is much type of fraud. With the use of technology, stealing of information is much easier.easier.

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Ethical Issues Associated with Usage of Computing Resources

CHALLENGE :Computer Resource Abuse

computer fraudcomputer fraudcomputer crimecomputer crime

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- Sending virus in order to hack personal information and exposing to the others.

-  Deleting friend's assignment document.

-  Look/change students' grades from the lecturers' computers.

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- Taking someone's personal information or idea to use without any approval.

- Posting something like "He or she did ...." without any proves.

-  Cracking demo program and using it forever.

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- Using site's information and publishing a book without the source to earn benefit.

- Posting New movie that just came out on Youtube.

- Making program that can spy on other people's computer.

-  Chatting with someone using curse words.

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