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Ethics in Information Technology

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Every society forms a set of rules that establishes the boundaries of generally accepted behavior. These rules are often expressed in statements about how people should behave, and the individual rules fit together to form the moral code by which a society lives. Unfortunately, the different rules often have contradictions, and people are some- times uncertain about which rule to follow. For instance, if you witness a friend copy someone else’s answers while taking an exam, you might be caught in a conflict between loyalty to your friend and the value of telling the truth. Sometimes the rules do not seem to cover new situations, and an individual must determine how to apply existing rules
or develop new ones. You may strongly support personal privacy, but do you think an organization should be prohibited from monitoring employees’ use of its email and Internet services?
The term morality refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely shared they become the basis for an established consensus. However, individual views of what is moral may vary by age, cultural group, ethnic background, religion, life experiences, education, and gender. There is widespread agreement on the immorality of murder, theft, and arson, but other behaviors that are accepted in one culture might be unacceptable in another. Even within the same society, people can have strong disagreements over impor- tant moral issues. In the United States, for example, issues such as abortion, stem cell research, the death penalty, and gun control are continuously debated, and people on both sides of these debates feel that their arguments are on solid moral ground.

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Series Title

Ethics in Information Technology

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Publisher

USA : Course Technology, Cengage Learning., 2012

Collation

1-40

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

13: 978-1-111-53412-

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edtion

Subject(s)

Information Technology

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