This document discusses social media and its use in enterprises. It covers topics like defining social media, how enterprises use it, related ethics and impacts on privacy and intellectual property. Case studies of companies like Facebook are discussed. The document also covers managing ethical issues around information systems, including principles of privacy, property rights, accountability and quality of life. Fair information practices and their application to privacy laws are summarized.
Information system ethics is a set of concepts that guides the proper use of information. It deals with issues like information accuracy, ownership, privacy, theft, accessibility, and the need for a code of conduct. Specific topics covered include authenticating information, who owns individual data, protecting personal details, stealing identities, rights to access others' data, and unethical online behaviors like plagiarism and cybersquatting.
Ethical And Social Issues in MIS - Management Information SystemFaHaD .H. NooR
Information ethics has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society".[1] The term information ethics was first coined by Robert Hauptman and used in the book Ethical challenges in librarianship. It examines the morality that comes from information as a resource, a product, or as a target.[2] It provides a critical framework for considering moral issues concerning informational privacy, moral agency (e.g. whether artificial agents may be moral), new environmental issues (especially how agents should behave in the infosphere), problems arising from the life-cycle (creation, collection, recording, distribution, processing, etc.) of information (especially ownership and copyright, digital divide, and digital rights). It is very vital to understand that librarians, archivists, information professionals among others, really understand the importance of knowing how to disseminate proper information as well as being responsible with their actions when addressing information.[3]
Information ethics has evolved to relate to a range of fields such as computer ethics,[4] medical ethics, journalism[5] and the philosophy of information.
Dilemmas regarding the life of information are becoming increasingly important in a society that is defined as "the information society". The explosion of so much technology has brought information ethics to a forefront in ethical considerations. Information transmission and literacy are essential concerns in establishing an ethical foundation that promotes fair, equitable, and responsible practices. Information ethics broadly examines issues related to ownership, access, privacy, security, and community. It is also concerned with relational issues such as "the relationship between information and the good of society, the relationship between information providers and the consumers of information".[6]
Information technology affects common issues such as copyright protection, intellectual freedom, accountability, privacy, and security. Many of these issues are difficult or impossible to resolve due to fundamental tensions between Western moral philosophies (based on rules, democracy, individual rights, and personal freedoms) and the traditional Eastern cultures (based on relationships, hierarchy, collective responsibilities, and social harmony).[7] The multi-faceted dispute between Google and the government of the People's Republic of China reflects some of these fundamental tensions.
This document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It introduces the key topics that will be covered, which are what ethical issues information systems raise, principles for making ethical decisions, and challenges to privacy and intellectual property. It then discusses behavioral targeting and how companies monitor user activity to target ads. The document presents a model for thinking about how information technology introduces new situations not covered by existing rules, creating ripples in society that institutions struggle to address. Finally, it outlines five moral dimensions of information issues and key technology trends, such as advances in data collection and analysis, that raise new ethical concerns around privacy and data use.
Chapter 4 Ethical and Social Issues in Information SystemsSammer Qader
This document discusses ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It introduces key concepts like privacy, intellectual property, and accountability. It identifies five moral dimensions impacted by new technologies: information rights, property rights, system quality, quality of life, and accountability. Technological advances like increased computing power, data storage, data analysis, and networking have introduced new challenges around these issues that societies are still adapting to. The document advocates analyzing issues using a five-step approach and developing professional codes of conduct to help guide ethical decisions.
The document discusses various ethical and social issues that arise from information systems, such as privacy concerns related to data collection and behavioral targeting online. It also covers intellectual property challenges due to digital media, as well as accountability and liability questions regarding computer errors or failures. The document analyzes these topics through the framework of five moral dimensions of information systems: information rights, property rights, accountability, system quality, and quality of life.
This document discusses social issues related to the use and design of information systems. It notes that social issues represent one of the most discussed aspects of information systems research and include topics related to the human factors of systems planning, development and use. Some example social issues mentioned include ethics, culture, relationships, human interaction, and security. The document also lists some potential research topics within this area, such as ethical issues, cultural issues, human interaction issues, and relationship issues. Design issues and issues related to the use of information systems are also discussed.
Ethical and social issues in management information systems for BBA hons pro...Tonmoy zahid Rishad
Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
In the past 10 years, we have witnessed, arguably, one of the most ethically challenging periods for U.S. and global business. In today’s new legal environment, managers who violate the law and are convicted will most likely spend time in prison. Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors. When using information systems, it is essential to ask, “What is the ethical and socially responsible course of actin?”
A Model for Thinking about Ethical, Social and Political Issues
Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked. The ethical dilemma you may face as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate.
Information system ethics is a set of concepts that guides the proper use of information. It deals with issues like information accuracy, ownership, privacy, theft, accessibility, and the need for a code of conduct. Specific topics covered include authenticating information, who owns individual data, protecting personal details, stealing identities, rights to access others' data, and unethical online behaviors like plagiarism and cybersquatting.
Ethical And Social Issues in MIS - Management Information SystemFaHaD .H. NooR
Information ethics has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society".[1] The term information ethics was first coined by Robert Hauptman and used in the book Ethical challenges in librarianship. It examines the morality that comes from information as a resource, a product, or as a target.[2] It provides a critical framework for considering moral issues concerning informational privacy, moral agency (e.g. whether artificial agents may be moral), new environmental issues (especially how agents should behave in the infosphere), problems arising from the life-cycle (creation, collection, recording, distribution, processing, etc.) of information (especially ownership and copyright, digital divide, and digital rights). It is very vital to understand that librarians, archivists, information professionals among others, really understand the importance of knowing how to disseminate proper information as well as being responsible with their actions when addressing information.[3]
Information ethics has evolved to relate to a range of fields such as computer ethics,[4] medical ethics, journalism[5] and the philosophy of information.
Dilemmas regarding the life of information are becoming increasingly important in a society that is defined as "the information society". The explosion of so much technology has brought information ethics to a forefront in ethical considerations. Information transmission and literacy are essential concerns in establishing an ethical foundation that promotes fair, equitable, and responsible practices. Information ethics broadly examines issues related to ownership, access, privacy, security, and community. It is also concerned with relational issues such as "the relationship between information and the good of society, the relationship between information providers and the consumers of information".[6]
Information technology affects common issues such as copyright protection, intellectual freedom, accountability, privacy, and security. Many of these issues are difficult or impossible to resolve due to fundamental tensions between Western moral philosophies (based on rules, democracy, individual rights, and personal freedoms) and the traditional Eastern cultures (based on relationships, hierarchy, collective responsibilities, and social harmony).[7] The multi-faceted dispute between Google and the government of the People's Republic of China reflects some of these fundamental tensions.
This document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It introduces the key topics that will be covered, which are what ethical issues information systems raise, principles for making ethical decisions, and challenges to privacy and intellectual property. It then discusses behavioral targeting and how companies monitor user activity to target ads. The document presents a model for thinking about how information technology introduces new situations not covered by existing rules, creating ripples in society that institutions struggle to address. Finally, it outlines five moral dimensions of information issues and key technology trends, such as advances in data collection and analysis, that raise new ethical concerns around privacy and data use.
Chapter 4 Ethical and Social Issues in Information SystemsSammer Qader
This document discusses ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It introduces key concepts like privacy, intellectual property, and accountability. It identifies five moral dimensions impacted by new technologies: information rights, property rights, system quality, quality of life, and accountability. Technological advances like increased computing power, data storage, data analysis, and networking have introduced new challenges around these issues that societies are still adapting to. The document advocates analyzing issues using a five-step approach and developing professional codes of conduct to help guide ethical decisions.
The document discusses various ethical and social issues that arise from information systems, such as privacy concerns related to data collection and behavioral targeting online. It also covers intellectual property challenges due to digital media, as well as accountability and liability questions regarding computer errors or failures. The document analyzes these topics through the framework of five moral dimensions of information systems: information rights, property rights, accountability, system quality, and quality of life.
This document discusses social issues related to the use and design of information systems. It notes that social issues represent one of the most discussed aspects of information systems research and include topics related to the human factors of systems planning, development and use. Some example social issues mentioned include ethics, culture, relationships, human interaction, and security. The document also lists some potential research topics within this area, such as ethical issues, cultural issues, human interaction issues, and relationship issues. Design issues and issues related to the use of information systems are also discussed.
Ethical and social issues in management information systems for BBA hons pro...Tonmoy zahid Rishad
Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
In the past 10 years, we have witnessed, arguably, one of the most ethically challenging periods for U.S. and global business. In today’s new legal environment, managers who violate the law and are convicted will most likely spend time in prison. Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors. When using information systems, it is essential to ask, “What is the ethical and socially responsible course of actin?”
A Model for Thinking about Ethical, Social and Political Issues
Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked. The ethical dilemma you may face as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate.
The document discusses several ethical and social issues raised by information management and technology, including privacy, property rights, and system quality. It provides examples of how new technologies like behavioral targeting, data analysis, and the internet pose challenges to privacy and introduces concepts like profiling and nonobvious relationship awareness. The document also discusses principles for ethical decision making, such as responsibility and accountability, and techniques for ethical analysis. It examines the dimensions of privacy and issues around fair information practices, cookies, and challenges to privacy online.
This document discusses the ethical and social impacts of information systems. It covers several topics, including privacy and intellectual property rights, accountability and control issues, system quality concerns, and the effects of technology on quality of life. The goals are to analyze ethical and social problems raised by information systems, identify the moral dimensions of the information society, and examine principles for conducting ethical analysis and designing corporate policies.
The document discusses five moral dimensions of information systems:
1. Information rights including privacy, data collection, and fair information practices.
2. Intellectual property rights such as trade secrets, copyright, and patents which are challenged by easy replication and transmission online.
3. Accountability, liability, and control regarding who is responsible for consequences of IT use.
4. System quality and ensuring software and data meet standards for release and trust.
5. Quality of life including balancing technology access, employment impacts, and health risks against rapid change.
This document discusses social media and its impacts on society. It begins by defining social media as web-based technologies that allow the creation and sharing of user-generated content, blending technology and social interaction. It then discusses several trends related to social media, including the death of control over communication, fewer gatekeepers, fragmentation of information, and social media becoming a community rather than just a distribution channel. The document provides statistics on social media usage in the UK and discusses some of its impacts. It focuses on how to maximize platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, YouTube, and Twitter for professional networking and branding. It also discusses types of social media users and some privacy, security, and social issues related to usage.
This document contains review questions about ethical, social, and political issues related to technology. It discusses how ethics, society, and politics are interconnected and provides examples. Key technology trends like increasing computer power and data storage capabilities are highlighted as heightening ethical concerns due to their impact on privacy, data analysis, and system dependence. The document also defines responsibility, accountability, and liability and outlines the five steps of an ethical analysis. It identifies six ethical principles and discusses professional codes of conduct, privacy, and how technology challenges privacy protection. Intellectual property rights and challenges posed by the Internet are also addressed.
The document discusses several topics related to ethical and social issues in information systems. It describes how information systems can pose challenges to privacy and intellectual property. It also discusses how systems have affected everyday life. The document provides examples of ethical issues raised by emerging technologies and examines principles for analyzing ethical dilemmas related to information systems.
The document discusses ethical issues related to information system design and use. It begins with an introduction to information ethics and some examples of unethical IS uses. It then covers motivation for social ethics, importance and scope of information systems, key ethical challenges, and comparisons between privacy laws in Europe and the US. The document also discusses findings around power of information and need for ethical decisions. It concludes that new technologies require reconsidering standards of conduct regarding information use.
This document discusses several ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It addresses principles of responsibility, accountability, and liability regarding data use and privacy protection. Contemporary technologies like data mining and predictive modeling pose challenges to privacy and intellectual property. Laws and policies are still developing to address these issues.
This document discusses ethical issues related to information systems. It introduces the concept of NORA technology which can find obscure relationships in data from multiple sources, potentially violating privacy. It then outlines principles of ethics like responsibility, accountability, and liability. The document presents a 5-step process for ethical analysis and 6 candidate ethical principles. Professional codes of conduct and real-world dilemmas are discussed. The rest of the document focuses on privacy, outlining US privacy protections and fair information practices that are the basis for many privacy laws. The European data protection directive and US safe harbor framework in response are also summarized.
This document discusses several ethical, social, and legal issues raised by information systems and modern technologies. It covers topics like privacy and data protection, intellectual property challenges, accountability and liability, ensuring system quality, and addressing negative social consequences. Specific issues examined include cookies and tracking online, challenges to copyright from digital media, balancing technical progress with job loss, and reducing the digital divide between demographic groups. Models for identifying and handling ethical problems in information systems are also introduced.
1. Social networking websites allow people to interact online by sharing opinions, insights, and experiences while eliminating barriers of time and distance.
2. Businesses use social networks for advertising, promoting products to friends of users, and gaining customer feedback.
3. Employers may review applicants' social media to screen for inappropriate content, though this raises legal issues regarding protected user data.
The document discusses several topics related to information ethics including intellectual property, privacy, trust, and information security. It describes laws and regulations that have been developed to protect consumer privacy such as HIPAA and FTC guidelines. It also discusses the need for organizations to establish information policies and security practices to responsibly manage data and protect against threats from both outside and inside sources.
This document discusses the ethical and social issues related to information systems. It identifies several principles of ethics that can guide decisions, such as the golden rule. It also discusses challenges like protecting privacy and intellectual property online. Key issues discussed include privacy, property rights, accountability, system quality, and the impact of technology on quality of life. Solutions proposed include technical approaches like P3P and the importance of codes of conduct and legal frameworks.
Cyberethics is the study of moral, legal, and social issues involving cybertechnology and its impact. Cybertechnology refers to computing and communications devices like computers, networks, and the Internet. The history of cyberethics includes four phases defined by the evolving technologies from standalone machines to today's converged technologies. While some argue cyberethics issues are not unique, others believe new issues have emerged due to the scale and scope enabled by cybertechnology, like the ability to stalk multiple victims globally without leaving home.
Ethical implications of information technologyWish Mrt'xa
This document discusses the ethical implications of information technology. It defines key terms like morals, ethics, and laws. It emphasizes the need for organizations to establish an ethics culture through a corporate credo, ethics programs, and codes of conduct. It addresses computer ethics, social rights and responsibilities regarding technology access and privacy. The role of the CIO is to ensure technology is used responsibly by balancing various pressures and influences through an action plan promoting ethical computer operations.
The world is adopting the new technology the need of ethics arises to sustain the proper growth and to minimize the risk of wrong uses. As technology is growing good if it is in proper hands but goes totally wrong in wrong hands.
The objective of this module is to gain an overview of the ethics surrounding big data and the legislation that governs it.
Upon completion of this module you will:
- Gain knowledge on how to recognize the necessity of regulating big data
- Obtain an understanding of the difference between privacy and data protection
- Understand the need to implement data protection actions into your own business
This document discusses several ethical issues related to information technology, including privacy, data security, unpredictability, unreliability, unmanageable costs, and technology manipulation. It provides examples of each, such as privacy concerns regarding online banking and data security, viruses making computers less predictable, internet traffic slowing down websites, program modifications exceeding initial plans, and media manipulation through photo and sound editing.
The document discusses how advances in computing, data storage, data analysis, and networking have increased organizations' ability to collect and analyze large amounts of personal data, which raises ethical concerns. These technologies have made it possible to routinely violate individual privacy and create detailed personal profiles. Data analysis tools can now combine information from various sources to find obscure connections between individuals. Future advances may allow massive and precise invasions of privacy if privacy standards and laws do not adapt to new technologies.
This document discusses ethics in an information society and outlines some key concepts and principles to consider. It identifies responsibility, accountability, liability, and due process as basic concepts. It also presents steps for ethical analysis and lists some candidate ethical principles like the Golden Rule, Kant's Categorical Imperative, and utilitarianism. Finally, it discusses professional codes of conduct and provides examples of real-world IT ethical dilemmas around issues like monitoring employee internet use and protecting consumer data.
The presentation is all about the issues in professional ethics. This talks about the failures of ethics in Information Technology. Sliding thru the powerpoint gives you a hint what are the ethical and social issues in information systems
The document discusses several topics related to ethics and privacy when dealing with information technology:
1. It introduces four common ethical frameworks used to evaluate decisions: utilitarian, rights-based, fairness-based, and common good approaches.
2. It outlines some fundamental tenets of ethics like responsibility, accountability, and liability that are important in a corporate environment.
3. It identifies four general categories of ethical issues related to IT: privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. It provides examples of issues that fall under each category.
4. It focuses specifically on privacy issues, outlining concerns around electronic surveillance, personal information in databases, information shared online, and international differences in privacy laws and standards.
The document discusses several ethical and social issues raised by information management and technology, including privacy, property rights, and system quality. It provides examples of how new technologies like behavioral targeting, data analysis, and the internet pose challenges to privacy and introduces concepts like profiling and nonobvious relationship awareness. The document also discusses principles for ethical decision making, such as responsibility and accountability, and techniques for ethical analysis. It examines the dimensions of privacy and issues around fair information practices, cookies, and challenges to privacy online.
This document discusses the ethical and social impacts of information systems. It covers several topics, including privacy and intellectual property rights, accountability and control issues, system quality concerns, and the effects of technology on quality of life. The goals are to analyze ethical and social problems raised by information systems, identify the moral dimensions of the information society, and examine principles for conducting ethical analysis and designing corporate policies.
The document discusses five moral dimensions of information systems:
1. Information rights including privacy, data collection, and fair information practices.
2. Intellectual property rights such as trade secrets, copyright, and patents which are challenged by easy replication and transmission online.
3. Accountability, liability, and control regarding who is responsible for consequences of IT use.
4. System quality and ensuring software and data meet standards for release and trust.
5. Quality of life including balancing technology access, employment impacts, and health risks against rapid change.
This document discusses social media and its impacts on society. It begins by defining social media as web-based technologies that allow the creation and sharing of user-generated content, blending technology and social interaction. It then discusses several trends related to social media, including the death of control over communication, fewer gatekeepers, fragmentation of information, and social media becoming a community rather than just a distribution channel. The document provides statistics on social media usage in the UK and discusses some of its impacts. It focuses on how to maximize platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, YouTube, and Twitter for professional networking and branding. It also discusses types of social media users and some privacy, security, and social issues related to usage.
This document contains review questions about ethical, social, and political issues related to technology. It discusses how ethics, society, and politics are interconnected and provides examples. Key technology trends like increasing computer power and data storage capabilities are highlighted as heightening ethical concerns due to their impact on privacy, data analysis, and system dependence. The document also defines responsibility, accountability, and liability and outlines the five steps of an ethical analysis. It identifies six ethical principles and discusses professional codes of conduct, privacy, and how technology challenges privacy protection. Intellectual property rights and challenges posed by the Internet are also addressed.
The document discusses several topics related to ethical and social issues in information systems. It describes how information systems can pose challenges to privacy and intellectual property. It also discusses how systems have affected everyday life. The document provides examples of ethical issues raised by emerging technologies and examines principles for analyzing ethical dilemmas related to information systems.
The document discusses ethical issues related to information system design and use. It begins with an introduction to information ethics and some examples of unethical IS uses. It then covers motivation for social ethics, importance and scope of information systems, key ethical challenges, and comparisons between privacy laws in Europe and the US. The document also discusses findings around power of information and need for ethical decisions. It concludes that new technologies require reconsidering standards of conduct regarding information use.
This document discusses several ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It addresses principles of responsibility, accountability, and liability regarding data use and privacy protection. Contemporary technologies like data mining and predictive modeling pose challenges to privacy and intellectual property. Laws and policies are still developing to address these issues.
This document discusses ethical issues related to information systems. It introduces the concept of NORA technology which can find obscure relationships in data from multiple sources, potentially violating privacy. It then outlines principles of ethics like responsibility, accountability, and liability. The document presents a 5-step process for ethical analysis and 6 candidate ethical principles. Professional codes of conduct and real-world dilemmas are discussed. The rest of the document focuses on privacy, outlining US privacy protections and fair information practices that are the basis for many privacy laws. The European data protection directive and US safe harbor framework in response are also summarized.
This document discusses several ethical, social, and legal issues raised by information systems and modern technologies. It covers topics like privacy and data protection, intellectual property challenges, accountability and liability, ensuring system quality, and addressing negative social consequences. Specific issues examined include cookies and tracking online, challenges to copyright from digital media, balancing technical progress with job loss, and reducing the digital divide between demographic groups. Models for identifying and handling ethical problems in information systems are also introduced.
1. Social networking websites allow people to interact online by sharing opinions, insights, and experiences while eliminating barriers of time and distance.
2. Businesses use social networks for advertising, promoting products to friends of users, and gaining customer feedback.
3. Employers may review applicants' social media to screen for inappropriate content, though this raises legal issues regarding protected user data.
The document discusses several topics related to information ethics including intellectual property, privacy, trust, and information security. It describes laws and regulations that have been developed to protect consumer privacy such as HIPAA and FTC guidelines. It also discusses the need for organizations to establish information policies and security practices to responsibly manage data and protect against threats from both outside and inside sources.
This document discusses the ethical and social issues related to information systems. It identifies several principles of ethics that can guide decisions, such as the golden rule. It also discusses challenges like protecting privacy and intellectual property online. Key issues discussed include privacy, property rights, accountability, system quality, and the impact of technology on quality of life. Solutions proposed include technical approaches like P3P and the importance of codes of conduct and legal frameworks.
Cyberethics is the study of moral, legal, and social issues involving cybertechnology and its impact. Cybertechnology refers to computing and communications devices like computers, networks, and the Internet. The history of cyberethics includes four phases defined by the evolving technologies from standalone machines to today's converged technologies. While some argue cyberethics issues are not unique, others believe new issues have emerged due to the scale and scope enabled by cybertechnology, like the ability to stalk multiple victims globally without leaving home.
Ethical implications of information technologyWish Mrt'xa
This document discusses the ethical implications of information technology. It defines key terms like morals, ethics, and laws. It emphasizes the need for organizations to establish an ethics culture through a corporate credo, ethics programs, and codes of conduct. It addresses computer ethics, social rights and responsibilities regarding technology access and privacy. The role of the CIO is to ensure technology is used responsibly by balancing various pressures and influences through an action plan promoting ethical computer operations.
The world is adopting the new technology the need of ethics arises to sustain the proper growth and to minimize the risk of wrong uses. As technology is growing good if it is in proper hands but goes totally wrong in wrong hands.
The objective of this module is to gain an overview of the ethics surrounding big data and the legislation that governs it.
Upon completion of this module you will:
- Gain knowledge on how to recognize the necessity of regulating big data
- Obtain an understanding of the difference between privacy and data protection
- Understand the need to implement data protection actions into your own business
This document discusses several ethical issues related to information technology, including privacy, data security, unpredictability, unreliability, unmanageable costs, and technology manipulation. It provides examples of each, such as privacy concerns regarding online banking and data security, viruses making computers less predictable, internet traffic slowing down websites, program modifications exceeding initial plans, and media manipulation through photo and sound editing.
The document discusses how advances in computing, data storage, data analysis, and networking have increased organizations' ability to collect and analyze large amounts of personal data, which raises ethical concerns. These technologies have made it possible to routinely violate individual privacy and create detailed personal profiles. Data analysis tools can now combine information from various sources to find obscure connections between individuals. Future advances may allow massive and precise invasions of privacy if privacy standards and laws do not adapt to new technologies.
This document discusses ethics in an information society and outlines some key concepts and principles to consider. It identifies responsibility, accountability, liability, and due process as basic concepts. It also presents steps for ethical analysis and lists some candidate ethical principles like the Golden Rule, Kant's Categorical Imperative, and utilitarianism. Finally, it discusses professional codes of conduct and provides examples of real-world IT ethical dilemmas around issues like monitoring employee internet use and protecting consumer data.
The presentation is all about the issues in professional ethics. This talks about the failures of ethics in Information Technology. Sliding thru the powerpoint gives you a hint what are the ethical and social issues in information systems
The document discusses several topics related to ethics and privacy when dealing with information technology:
1. It introduces four common ethical frameworks used to evaluate decisions: utilitarian, rights-based, fairness-based, and common good approaches.
2. It outlines some fundamental tenets of ethics like responsibility, accountability, and liability that are important in a corporate environment.
3. It identifies four general categories of ethical issues related to IT: privacy, accuracy, property, and accessibility. It provides examples of issues that fall under each category.
4. It focuses specifically on privacy issues, outlining concerns around electronic surveillance, personal information in databases, information shared online, and international differences in privacy laws and standards.
This document contains content from a chapter on ethical and social issues in information systems. It discusses several key topics: privacy and data collection and how new technologies challenge privacy protections; intellectual property issues raised by digital media; accountability and liability concerns regarding software and data quality; and impacts of technology on quality of life such as job losses and the digital divide. Ethical analysis approaches are presented for identifying stakeholders, options, and consequences of decisions regarding these issues.
This document discusses ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It covers topics like privacy, intellectual property, accountability, system quality, and quality of life. Key points addressed include challenges to privacy from technologies like cookies and challenges to intellectual property from digital media. Fair information practices and principles of responsible, accountable, and liable use of information systems are also summarized.
The document discusses the ethical and social issues related to information systems. It outlines objectives related to analyzing ethical issues raised by IS, identifying moral principles to guide decisions, and assessing the impact of IS on privacy, intellectual property, and everyday life. Key sections explore the relationship between ethics, social issues, and politics in an information society; the moral dimensions of information including privacy, property rights, accountability, and quality of life; and opportunities and challenges for management in addressing ethical IS issues.
This chapter discusses the ethical and social issues raised by information systems. It addresses principles of ethics and analyzes how new technologies can challenge privacy and intellectual property protections. The introduction of IT brings rapid social change and new types of crimes by creating opportunities to access and share information more easily. This raises moral issues around rights to information and property, accountability, system quality, and quality of life. The chapter also covers methods for analyzing ethical dilemmas and balancing competing interests.
This document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It covers topics like privacy, intellectual property, responsible use of technology, and how information systems have impacted society. The key points are that new technologies can challenge existing social norms; an ethical analysis involves understanding stakeholders, options, and consequences; and information privacy is an important issue addressed by laws and practices like data protection and fair information practices.
This chapter discusses the ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It addresses five moral dimensions: information rights and obligations, property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, and quality of life. New information technologies can enable social change and new types of crimes. Key issues include privacy, intellectual property, computer crime, and the digital divide. Technical solutions and industry self-regulation aim to address privacy challenges like online tracking, but their effectiveness varies.
The document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems in business. It covers topics like ethics in information system design and use, identifying and addressing ethical issues, examples of organizations violating ethics, and the relationship between society, information systems, and business. The document also provides examples of how businesses can address ethical concerns through codes of conduct, clear policies, transparency, and decision-making frameworks. Additionally, it discusses social issues such as privacy, responsibility, isolation, and how businesses can contribute to sustainability and social causes through responsible use of information systems.
Ethical issues related to is design and its useNoriha Nori
This document outlines the contents of a student group project on information ethics. It includes an introduction discussing key concepts in information ethics such as privacy, accuracy, and intellectual property. It also covers topics like the importance and scope of information ethics, comparisons between different regions' laws, common ethical challenges, and conclusions regarding new responsibilities in an increasingly digital world.
The document discusses the ethical and social issues related to information systems. It outlines several objectives, including analyzing the relationship between ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems. It also explores understanding ethical issues related to systems, the moral dimensions of an information society, and management opportunities and challenges regarding ethical issues. The document provides an overview of key topics like privacy, intellectual property, accountability, and the impact of technology on quality of life.
This document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It begins with definitions of ethics and morals. It then outlines the key topics to be covered, including ethical frameworks, how information systems challenge privacy and intellectual property, and how laws have evolved in response. Specific issues raised by information systems are around information rights, property rights, accountability, system quality and quality of life. Technical capabilities like cookies and data collection also impact privacy. Society and governments have responded through regulations like GDPR to address these challenges.
MIS-CH04: Ethical and Social Issues in INformation SystemsSukanya Ben
This document contains sections from a textbook chapter on ethical and social issues in information systems. It discusses key topics like privacy, intellectual property, principles for ethical decision making, and challenges posed by new technologies. Specific sections cover content piracy on the web, data analysis techniques like profiling and relationship mining, monitoring employees in the workplace, and protecting privacy and intellectual property in the digital age.
Ehsan Kabir Solicitor is telling the Ethics Frameworks. Ehsan Kabir has past experience in dealing with civil litigation and advising on complex matters.
Social Media and the Law with Andrew Rosenman, partner, Mayer Brown Law Firm ...Social Media Rockstar
This document discusses various employment law issues related to social media. It begins by noting the significant risks employers face from the growth of social media, including public relations issues and legal liability. It then addresses legal issues regarding screening candidates' social media, monitoring current employees' social media, and references for former employees. The document provides recommendations for employers, such as having a clear social media policy and training employees on it. It concludes by discussing National Labor Relations Board limits on social media policies.
CHAPTER 1 - PROFESSIONAL ISSUES (Lecture 1).pptRogerPrimo2
This document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It introduces concepts of ethics and how information systems can enable social change and new types of crimes. It presents a model where information technology is like a rock dropped in a pond, creating ripples of new situations. This leads to five moral dimensions of the information age: information rights and obligations, property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, and quality of life. It also outlines four technology trends that raise ethical issues and how basic ethical concepts apply to information systems.
This document discusses various ethical, social, and political issues related to information systems. It provides examples of companies like Enron that misused information systems unethically. It presents models for analyzing the ripple effects of new technologies and how ethical analysis involves identifying facts, stakeholders, options, and consequences. The document also discusses principles that can guide ethical decisions, such as responsibility, accountability, and privacy rights. It emphasizes that as technology changes society rapidly, ethics are needed to make choices in legally gray areas.
Application of a decision making framework to an IT-related ethical mallisonshavon
Application of a decision making framework to an IT-related ethical issue.
For this assignment, you are given an opportunity to explore and apply a decision making framework to an IT-related ethical issue. A framework provides a methodical and systematic approach for decision making. Methods of Ethical Analysis describes three structured frameworks that may be used for ethical analysis, namely Reynolds Seven-Step Approach, Kidder’s Nine Steps, and Spinello’s Seven-Step Process. There are several ways to systematically approach an ethical dilemma, and while each of the frameworks described has its merits, each will result in an ethical decision if straightforwardly and honestly applied.
In addition, you will want to consider the ethical theories described in Introduction to Theoretical Ethical Frameworks which help decision makers find the right balance concerning the acceptability of and justification for their actions. A separate write-up of the ethical theory that supports your decision is part of the following requirements.
For this paper, the following elements must be addressed:
• Describe a current IT-related ethical issue: Since this is a paper exercise, not a real-time situation, you may want to construct a brief scenario where this issue comes into play, and thus causes an ethical dilemma. The dilemma may affect you, your family, your job, or your company; or it may be a matter of public policy or law that affects the general populace. See the list below for a list of suggested issues, which may be a source of ethical dilemmas.
• Define a concise problem statement that is extracted from the above description or scenario. It is best if you define a specific problem caused by the dilemma, that needs a specific ethical decision to be made, that will solve the dilemma. Be aware that if it is a matter of public policy or law, that it may require a regulatory body or congressional approval to take action to implement a solution.
• Analyze your problem using one of the structured decision-making frameworks. Make sure that you identify the decision-making framework utilized. In addition, the steps in the decision-making framework selected must be used as major headings in the Analysis section.
• Consider and state the impact of the decision that you made on an individual, an organization, stakeholders, customers suppliers, and the environment, as applicable!
• State and discuss the applicable ethical theory that supports your decision.
Concerning your paper:
• Prepare a minimum 3- 5 page, double-spaced paper as a Microsoft Word file.
• Provide appropriate American Psychological Association (APA) source citations for all sources you use. In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your paper should reflect appropriate grammar and spelling, good organization, and proper business-writing style.
For example, Kidder’s approach has nine steps, which are:
• Recognize that there is a moral issue.
• Determine the actor (whos ...
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2. Agenda
• (1st half)
– What is Social Media?
– How is it used in enterprises?
– Ethics, Moral, etc.
– It’s Impacts: Privacy, IP, etc.
• (2nd half)
– Case Study: Facebook
5. What is Social Media?*
A: People have innate desire to communicate and to build
communities. Hence, tools, facilitating those interactions, are
called social media tools.
7. Gartner Magic Quadrant of Enterprise Social S/W*
1. Leaders*
2. Challengers*
3. Visionaries*
4. Niche Players*
8. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• What ethical, social, and political issues are raised by information systems?
• What specific principles for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions?
• Why do contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual
privacy and intellectual property?
• How have information systems affected everyday life?
9. Behavioral Targeting: Your Privacy Is the Target
• Problem: Need to efficiently target online ads.
• Solutions: Behavioral targeting allows businesses and organizations to more precisely target desired demographics.
• Google uses tracking files to monitor user activity on thousands of sites; businesses monitor activity on their own sites to
better understand customers.
• Demonstrates IT’s role in organizing and distributing information.
• Illustrates the ethical questions inherent in online information gathering.
10. Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
• Recent cases of failed ethical judgment in business:
– Barclay’s Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Walmart
– In many, information systems used to bury decisions from public scrutiny
• Ethics
– Principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their
behaviors
11. Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
• Information systems and ethics
– Information systems raise new ethical questions because they create opportunities for:
• Intense social change, threatening existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations
• New kinds of crime (i.e. Photo Leaks, etc.)
12. Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
• A model for thinking about ethical, social, and political Issues
– Society as a calm pond
– IT as rock dropped in pond, creating ripples of new situations not covered by old rules
– Social and political institutions cannot respond overnight to these ripples—it may take years to develop etiquette,
expectations, laws
• Requires understanding of ethics to make choices in legally gray areas
13. The introduction of new
information technology has a
ripple effect, raising new
ethical, social, and political
issues that must be dealt with
on the individual, social, and
political levels. These issues
have five moral dimensions:
information rights and
obligations, property rights and
obligations, system quality,
quality of life, and
accountability and control.
Figure 4-1
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG ETHICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL
ISSUES IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY
14. *Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
• Five moral dimensions* of the
information age:
– Information rights and obligations
– Property rights and obligations
– Accountability and control
– System quality
– Quality of life
15. Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
• Key technology trends that raise ethical issues
– Doubling of computer power
• More organizations depend on computer systems for critical operations.
– Rapidly declining data storage costs
• Organizations can easily maintain detailed databases on individuals.
– Networking advances and the Internet
• Copying data from one location to another and accessing personal data from remote locations are much easier.
16. Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
– Advances in data analysis techniques
• Profiling
– Combining data from multiple sources to create dossiers of detailed information on individuals
• Nonobvious relationship awareness (NORA)
– Combining data from multiple sources to find obscure hidden connections that might help identify
criminals or terrorists
– Mobile device growth
• Tracking of individual cell phones
17. NORA technology can take
information about people from
disparate sources and find
obscure, nonobvious
relationships. It might discover,
for example, that an applicant
for a job at a casino shares a
telephone number with a
known criminal and issue an
alert to the hiring manager.
Figure 4-2
NONOBVIOUS RELATIONSHIP AWARENESS (NORA)
18. Ethics in an Information Society
• Basic concepts for ethical analysis
– Responsibility:
• Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for decisions
– Accountability:
• Mechanisms for identifying responsible parties
– Liability:
• Permits individuals (and firms) to recover damages done to them
– Due process:
• Laws are well-known and understood, with an ability to appeal to higher authorities
19. • Five-step ethical analysis
Ethics in an Information Society
1. Identify and clearly describe the facts.
2. Define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values involved.
3. Identify the stakeholders.
4. Identify the options that you can reasonably take.
5. Identify the potential consequences of your options.
20. • Candidate ethical principles
– Golden Rule
Ethics in an Information Society
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
– Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative
• If an action is not right for everyone to take, it is not right for anyone.
– Descartes’ Rule of Change
• If an action cannot be taken repeatedly, it is not right to take at all.
21. Ethics in an Information Society
• Candidate ethical principles (cont.)
– Utilitarian Principle
• Take the action that achieves the higher or greater value.
– Risk Aversion Principle
• Take the action that produces the least harm or potential cost.
– Ethical “No Free Lunch” Rule
• Assume that virtually all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone unless there is a specific
declaration otherwise.
22. • Professional codes of conduct
– Promulgated by associations of professionals
• Examples: AMA, ABA, AITP, ACM
– Promises by professions to regulate themselves in the general interest of society
• Real-world ethical dilemmas
– One set of interests pitted against another
• Example: right of company to maximize productivity of workers versus workers right to use Internet for short
personal tasks
Ethics in an Information Society
23. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Information rights: privacy and freedom in the Internet age
– Privacy:
• Claim of individuals to be left alone, free from surveillance or interference from other individuals,
organizations, or state; claim to be able to control information about yourself
– In the United States, privacy protected by:
• First Amendment (freedom of speech)
• Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure)
• Additional federal statues (e.g., Privacy Act of 1974)
24. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Fair information practices:
– Set of principles governing the collection and use of information
• Basis of most U.S. and European privacy laws
• Based on mutuality of interest between record holder and individual
• Restated and extended by FTC in 1998 to provide guidelines for protecting online privacy
– Used to drive changes in privacy legislation
• COPPA
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• HIPAA
• Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011
25. • FTC FIP principles:
The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
– Notice/awareness (core principle)
• Web sites must disclose practices before collecting data.
– Choice/consent (core principle)
• Consumers must be able to choose how information is used for secondary purposes.
– Access/participation
• Consumers must be able to review and contest accuracy of personal data.
26. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• FTC FIP principles (cont.)
– Security
• Data collectors must take steps to ensure accuracy, security of personal data.
– Enforcement
• Must be mechanism to enforce FIP principles.
27. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• European Directive on Data Protection:
– Companies must inform people information is collected and disclose how it is stored and used.
– Requires informed consent of customer.
– EU member nations cannot transfer personal data to countries without similar privacy protection (e.g., the United
States).
– U.S. businesses use safe harbor framework.
• Self-regulating policy and enforcement that meets objectives of government legislation but does not involve
government regulation or enforcement.
28. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Internet challenges to privacy:
– Cookies
• Identify browser and track visits to site
• Super cookies (Flash cookies)
– Web beacons (Web bugs)
• Tiny graphics embedded in e-mails and Web pages
• Monitor who is reading e-mail message or visiting site
– Spyware
• Surreptitiously installed on user’s computer
• May transmit user’s keystrokes or display unwanted ads
– Google services and behavioral targeting
29. Cookies are written by a Web site on a visitor’s hard drive. When the visitor returns to that Web site, the Web
server requests the ID number from the cookie and uses it to access the data stored by that server on that
visitor. The Web site can then use these data to display personalized information.
Figure 4-3
HOW COOKIES IDENTIFY WEB VISITORS
30. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• The United States allows businesses to gather transaction information and use this for other marketing purposes.
– Opt-out vs. opt-in model
• Online industry promotes self-regulation over privacy legislation.
• However, extent of responsibility taken varies:
– Complex/ambiguous privacy statements
– Opt-out models selected over opt-in
– Online “seals” of privacy principles
31. • Technical solutions
The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
– E-mail encryption
– Anonymity tools
– Anti-spyware tools
– Browser features
• “Private” browsing
• “Do not track” options
– Overall, few technical solutions
32. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems*
• Property rights: Intellectual property
– Intellectual property: intangible property of any kind created by individuals or corporations
– Three main ways that intellectual property is protected: *
• Trade secret*: intellectual work or product belonging to business, not in the public domain
• Copyright*: statutory grant protecting intellectual property from being copied for the life of the author, plus 70
years
• Patents*: grants creator of invention an exclusive monopoly on ideas behind invention for 20 year
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• Design Rights: Against unauthorized party making copycat products.
33. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Challenges to intellectual property rights
– Digital media different from physical media (e.g., books)
• Ease of replication
• Ease of transmission (networks, Internet)
• Difficulty in classifying software
• Compactness
• Difficulties in establishing uniqueness
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
– Makes it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials
34. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Accountability, liability, control
– Computer-related liability problems
• If software fails, who is responsible?
– If seen as part of machine that injures or harms, software producer and operator may be liable.
– If seen as similar to book, difficult to hold author/publisher responsible.
– What should liability be if software seen as service? Would this be similar to telephone systems not
being liable for transmitted messages?
35. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• System quality: Data quality and system errors
– What is an acceptable, technologically feasible level of system quality?
• Flawless software is economically unfeasible.
– Three principal sources of poor system performance:
• Software bugs, errors
• Hardware or facility failures
• Poor input data quality (most common source of business system failure)
36. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Quality of life: Equity, access, boundaries
– Negative social consequences of systems
• Balancing power: although computing power decentralizing, key decision making remains centralized
• Rapidity of change: businesses may not have enough time to respond to global competition
• Maintaining boundaries: computing, Internet use lengthens work-day, infringes on family, personal time
• Dependence and vulnerability: public and private organizations ever more dependent on computer systems
37. The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
• Computer crime and abuse
– Computer crime: commission of illegal acts through use of computer or against a computer system—computer may
be object or instrument of crime
– Computer abuse: unethical acts, not illegal
• Spam: high costs for businesses in dealing with spam
• Employment:
– Reengineering work resulting in lost jobs
• Equity and access—the digital divide:
– Certain ethnic and income groups in the United States less likely to have computers or Internet access
38. • Health risks:
The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
– Repetitive stress injury (RSI)
• Largest source is computer keyboards
• Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
– Computer vision syndrome (CVS)
• Eyestrain and headaches related to screen use
– Technostress
• Aggravation, impatience, fatigue
40. 1. How do you use Social Media?
2. Do people who use Facebook have a
legitimate claim to privacy when
they themselves are posting
information about themselves?
3. How can using the sharing privacy
controls help preserve your privacy
on Facebook? In what ways is the
sharing control ineffective?
4. How will changing your Connection
settings on Facebook help protect
your privacy?
5. Why are Facebook’s facial
recognition software and policies a
potential threat to privacy?
Case Study - Facebook
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