Social and Ethical Issue in I.T
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics:
Social issues are matters of concern to governments and the community. They reflect aspects of society, its people and institutions that people want to, and can, do something about.
Ethical issues in IT. differ from general ethical issues in a variety of ways. Parker, Swope and Baker note that ethical problems involving computers pose a special challenge, for a number of different reasons. Various ethical issues are:
1.Ethical dilemmas
2.Plagiarism
3.Piracy
4.Hacking
5.Computer crime
6.Viruses
7.Ergonomics/health issues
8.Job displacement/work pressures imposed on computer professionals
9.Digital divide
10.Gender
According to the St James Ethics Centre:
Ethics is seeking to answer the question “what ought one to do?”
Social and Ethical Issues in IT (Information Technology)
This program takes viewers to where information technology meets everyday life, offering six self-contained stories within three specific themes: Chapter 1) Power and Privacy, includes "Privacy Threat" and "Power to the People," which looks at Data Mining, SPAM, Cookies, and Identity Theft; Chapter 2) Control and Security, includes "Security Gets Smarter" and "Copyright," which looks at code-makers, code-breakers or 'hackers,' Linux (open access code) and Watermarking; Chapter 3) Trust and Accuracy, includes "In Search of Truth" and "Accuracy Counts, " which looks at Freedom of Information and Safety-Critical software. The program concludes with a comprehensive six-point guide to ethical decision-making. VEA Productions, Inc. 07DR JSCA 30 min.
1.1 Reliability
Reliability refers to the operation of hardware, the design of software, the accuracy ofdata or the correspondence of data with the real world. Data may be unreliable if it is entered incorrectly or if it becomes outdated. For example, a medical record that becomes dissociated from the patient it refers to becomes unreliable. The reliability of
Social issues are matters of concern to governments and the community. They reflect aspects of society, its people and institutions that people want to, and can, do something about.
Ethical issues in IT. differ from general ethical issues in a variety of ways. Parker, Swope and Baker note that ethical problems involving computers pose a special challenge, for a number of different reasons. Various ethical issues are:
1.Ethical dilemmas
2.Plagiarism
3.Piracy
4.Hacking
5.Computer crime
6.Viruses
7.Ergonomics/health issues
8.Job displacement/work pressures imposed on computer professionals
9.Digital divide
10.Gender
According to the St James Ethics Centre:
Ethics is seeking to answer the question “what ought one to do?”
Social and Ethical Issues in IT (Information Technology)
This program takes viewers to where information technology meets everyday life, offering six self-contained stories within three specific themes: Chapter 1) Power and Privacy, includes "Privacy Threat" and "Power to the People," which looks at Data Mining, SPAM, Cookies, and Identity Theft; Chapter 2) Control and Security, includes "Security Gets Smarter" and "Copyright," which looks at code-makers, code-breakers or 'hackers,' Linux (open access code) and Watermarking; Chapter 3) Trust and Accuracy, includes "In Search of Truth" and "Accuracy Counts, " which looks at Freedom of Information and Safety-Critical software. The program concludes with a comprehensive six-point guide to ethical decision-making. VEA Productions, Inc. 07DR JSCA 30 min.
1.1 Reliability
Reliability refers to the operation of hardware, the design of software, the accuracy ofdata or the correspondence of data with the real world. Data may be unreliable if it is entered incorrectly or if it becomes outdated. For example, a medical record that becomes dissociated from the patient it refers to becomes unreliable. The reliability of