Ethical
- 1. •Group members; Ehtisaam Javed Ethical and Social issues
- 2. Student objectives What ethical, social and political issues are raised by information system? What specific principals for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions?
- 3. Recent cases of failed ethical judgment in business Enron , Worldcom , Parmalat In many information systems used to bury decisions. Ethics Principles of right and wrong that individuals acting as free moral agents use to make choices to guide their behavior.
- 4. Information System & Ethics Information system 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.
- 5. 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 ripple it may take years to develop etiquette, expectation, laws. Requires understanding of ethics to make choices in legally gray areas.
- 6. 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
- 7. Ethical analysis: A FIVE STEP PROCESS Identify and clearly describe the facts. Identify the stakeholders. Identify the options that you can reasonably take. Identify the potencial consequences of your options.
- 8. Candidate ethical principles Golden rule 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.
- 9. Candidate ethical principles Utilitarian principal Take the action that achieves the higher and greater value Risk aversion principal Take the action that produces the least harm or least potential cost Ethical “no free launch” rule Assume that virtually all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone unless there is a specific declaration otherwise
- 10. 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 U.S protected by: First Amendment. Fourth Amendment.
- 11. Internet challenges to privacy Cookies: Tiny files downloaded by website to visitor’s hard drive. Identify visitor’s browser and track visits the site. Allow websites to develop profiles on visitors. Web Bugs: Tiny graphics embedded in email messages and web pages. Designed to moniter who is reading
- 12. What is ethics and its Value in IT? In very simple term ethics is nothing more than your belief towards the action and happening situations. As the world is adopting the new technology the need of ethics arises to
- 13. Beginning Of IT and EVAULATION of Ethics Of IT Information Technology gets its huge popularity after years 1995 when Microsoft company initially launched the office programs for computer Today whole World is relying on such office suites
- 14. Control Over the piracy Today people are becoming rare who purchases things online. Everyone is searching things for free and privacy word commenced from here only
- 15. Safeguard the Private Information’s(Privacy) Whenever we create an account or transact any payment online the biggest concern is privacy To deal with such privacy problems solutions are 2 way authentication, Anti Spyware and more on
- 16. Ethics Followed In IT Never Piracy Online. Follow up the social reputation. Never harm the public Website. Never do fraud activities. Never create false Evidence Using It.
- 17. World After Following Ethics in IT (Summary) Stress Free Growth Becomes Possible. We can save upto 40% More Time. Confidence of Online Activities will grow More.