Ethical Issues in Information Technology The society develops with unbelievable speed‚ from telegraphy‚ telephone‚ radio of 19th century to the modern 21th century‚ which is the Age with rapid developing and growing of knowledge and information. For example‚ Internet has been used widely everywhere in the world. We call it “global‚ Web-based platform‚ this platform enables people to connect‚ compute‚ communicate‚ compete‚ and collaborate anywhere‚ anytime to access limitless amounts of information
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(combination of both) which are unique for a specific human being. Biometric technology has been around for so many years and the technology has being used as the latest weapon to fight against crime. The scope of this paper is reflecting on biometric in terms of ethical and privacy issues. There are a number of ethical issues centering on biometric concerning privacy rights of individuals. Examples of biometric technology are fingerprints‚ facial recognition‚ DNA‚ palm print recognition‚ hand geometry
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Protection Act of 2000‚ and the Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003‚ there were new ethical issues that made the creation of each of these acts necessary. Beginning with the Children’s Internet Protection Act that was effective in April 2000‚ the advances in information technology stem from the use of websites and other online services that became available during this time as a result of new ethical issues and the importance of this act’s creation. Second‚ The Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003
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What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 XBIS/220 Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 These days no matter where you look there is some type of information technology in your presence. It can be seen while someone is walking‚ eating lunch in a cafe or even driving
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Information Technology Act Vivian Pearson BIS/220 June 10‚ 2013 Daina Scott There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in my paper are the Children’s Online Privacy Act of 1998 and The Children Internet Protection Act. Children’s online Privacy Act COPPA‚ 1998 The Children’s Online Privacy Act is a federal law constructed to limit the collection and
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Information Technology Acts There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in this paper are the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000‚ and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Children’s Internet Protection Act‚ 2000 The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law which was passed by Congress to allocate the offensive content over the
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Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 December 17‚ 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper The advances in information technology have resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of many important acts. Two in particular acts are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Children’s Internet Protection Act (2000). Both of these acts were implemented to protect humans from harmful content and healthcare information. The Health Insurance Portability and
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- safety (data is clean against virus/ malicious worms) - quality Security - protection of software‚ hardware‚ machines‚ networks against - unauthorized access‚ use‚ disruption‚ destruction‚ disclosure - concerned with: - confidentiality/ privacy - integrity - availability (security controls to make sure system is up and running) - authenticity (ensuring data is genuine) Assurance - level of guarantee that a system will run expectedly Countermeasure - stop a threat from triggering
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Information Technology Acts As information technology continues to advance so does the need to protect consumers from the new ethical issues that arises. Congress tries to protect consumers from numerous ethical issues through developing and passing of laws. These advances happen so rapidly that it becomes difficult to foresee ethical issues. One of many ethical issues related to information technology is the ease of access to consumers’ personal information. Telemarketing companies’ acquire
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Biometrics Ethical and Privacy Issues 9/9/12 Abstract Biometrics technology aims at utilizing major and distinctive characteristics such as behavioral or biological‚ for the sake of positively indentifying people. With the help of a combination of hardware and specific identifying sets of rules‚ a basic human attribute‚ automated biometric recognition mimics to distinguish and categorize other people as individual and unique. But the challenges surrounding biometrics are great as well
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