AIS Computer Ethics

Main concepts

ETHICS

BUSINESS ETHICS

Security and accuracy

• Is an attempt to avoid such undesirable events as loss of confidentially or data integrity.
• Security system attempt to prevent fraud and other misuse of computer system.
• Increasing security can actually caused the problem, because security can be use personal property and to undermine freedom of access to data which may an injuries effect on some individual.

Environmental issues

• Computer will high-speed printers allow for the production of printed document faster than before.
• It is probably easier just to print a document than to consider whether it should be printed and how many copies really need to be made.
• paper comes from trees, a precious natural recourse, and ends up in landfills is not properly recycled.

Equity in access

• Some barriers to access are intrinsic to the technology of information systems, but some are avoidable through carful system design.
• Culture also limit access for e.g. where documentation is prepared in only one language or is poorly translatd.
• Artificial intelligence
• New set of social and ethical issues has a risen out of the popularity of expert system.

Who is responsible for the completeness of and appropriateness of the knowledge base? The person how design the system .

• Unemployment and displacement
• Many jobs have boon and are being changed as a result of the availability of computer technology.
• People unable or unprepared to change are displaced.

Computer misuse

• Computers can be misused in many ways, copying proprietary software, using a company's computer for personal benefits.
• And snooping through other peoples files are a few Computer misuse obvious examples