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What is Ethics
Principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices that guide their behavior
What are the four ethical standards and explain them.
- Utilitarian approach:An ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
- Rights approach:An ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties.
- Fairness approach:An ethical action treats all humans equally, or if unequally, then fairly, based on some defensible standard.
Common good approach:An ethical action is the one that best serves the community as a whole and is important to the welfare of everyone, not just some members.
Name the 5 steps for Ethical frameworks.
- Recognize the issue, Get the facts, Evaluate alternatives, Make a choice, Reflect on your decision
Recognize the issue: Does the decision what (3 questions)
-Damage someone
-Involve good/bad?
- Go beyond what is legal
To get relevant, sufficient facts you must:
-Identify stakeholders and consult relevant persons and groups
Evaluate alternative actions under what
- All four ethical standards
When you make a decision and test it, you must ask what question
- Which option best addresses the situation
When you act and reflect on the outcome of a decision, you must implement the decision with
- The greatest care and attention to the concerns of all stakeholders
What is the code of ethics and what are examples
-A collection of principles that are intended to guide decision making by members of an organization
-AITP ACM URISA
What are the fundamental tenets of ethics (3)
- Responsibility, Accountability, Liability
Responsibility means
- Accepting the consequences of your decisions and actions
Accountability means
-determining who is responsible for actions that were taken
Liability means
-A legal concept that gives individuals the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems
What is unethical is not necessarily what
- Illegal
What are the four issues between ethics and info. technology
- Privacy, Accuracy, Property, Accessibility
Privacy issues involve what and name an example
-collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals
- Google Street View
Accuracy issues involve what
-the authenticity, fidelity, and accuracy of information that is collected and processed
Property issues involve what
- the ownership and value of information
Accessibility issues revolve around ________________________.
-who should have access to info. and whether they should have to pay for that access
Privacy is
-The right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions
Information privacy is
-The right to determine when, and to what extent, information about you can be gathered and/or communicated to others
- Ex. Ordering Pizza Video
Profiling is when (2)
- companies collect PUBLIC and nonpublic data and integrate them
- process of creating digital dossiers
Digital dossiers are
- electronic descriptions of you and your habits
Court decisions have followed two rules:
-The right of privacy is not absolute. Your privacy must be balanced against the needs of society.
-The public’s right to know is superior to the individual’s right of privacy.
What are the threats to privacy (3)
-Electronic surveillance
- Personal info. in databases
-Information on Internet bulletin boards, newsgroups, and social networking sites
Personal information in databases include and which is the most visible
-Banks, utility companies, government, and credit reporting agencies(the most visibile
An example of information on Internet bulletin boards, newsgroups, and social networking sites is
- Reputation.com
Who are companies that collect public data (e.g., real estate records, telephone numbers) and nonpublic data (e.g., social security numbers, financial data, police records, motor vehicle records) and integrate them to produce digital dossiers.
- Data aggregators
What are the three best known credit reporting agencies
-Equifax
- TransUnion
-Experian
Privacy codes and policies are what
-An organization’s guidelines with respect to protecting the privacy of customers, clients, and employees
What are the two types of informed consent models
- Opt-out
- Opt-in
Which model is preferred by privacy advocators
- Opt-in
An opt-out model is when
-Organizations are permitted to collect personal information until the customer specifically requests that the data not be collected
An opt-in model is when
-Organizations are prohibited from collecting any personal information unless the customer specifically authorizes it
International Aspects of privacy are what (2)
-Privacy issues that international organizations and governments face when information spans countries and jurisdictions
- Safe harbor framework
For Accounting in IT, what requires accounts to monitor information security, fraud prevention and detection, and internal controls over financial reporting
- Federal regulations
For Finance in IT, who is also responsible for information security and accuracy
-CFO
For Marketing in IT, Marketers do not want to be what
-sued for invasion of privacy over data collected for the marketing database
For Production/Operations Management in IT, there are special considerations for what (2)
- labor laws
- offshore operations
For Human Resources Management in IT, they formulate and enforce what
-policies to control IT usage while maintaining employee-management relationships
MIS in IT must maintain what and why
-highest ethical standards
-because they have control over large amounts of personal information