Ch. 4 Text Flashcards
What are the five moral dimensions?
1) Information Rights and Obligations
2) Property Rights and Obligations
3) Accountability and Control
4) System Quality
5) Quality of Life
What are information rights and obligations?
What information rights do individuals and organization possess with respect to themselves?
What can they protect?
What are property rights and obligations?
How will traditional intellectual property rights be protected in a digital society in which tracing and accounting for ownership are difficult and ignoring such property rights is so easy?
What is accountability and control?
Who can and will be held accountable and liable for the harm done to individual and collective information and property rights?
What is system quality?
What standards of data and system quality should we demand to protect individual rights and safety of society?
What is quality of life?
What values should be preserved in an information- and knowledge-based society?
Which institutions should we protect from violation?
Which cultural values and practices does the new information technology support?
What are tech trends that raise ethical issues?
Information technology has heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social arrangements, and made some laws obsolete or severely crippled.
Social rules and laws have not yet adjusted to this dependence. Standards for setting the accuracy and reliability of information systems are not universally accepted or enforced.
1) Computing Power Doubles Every 18 Months
2) Data Storage Costs Rapidly Decline
3) Data Analysis Advances
4) Networking Advances
5) Mobile Device Growth Impact
Why does computing power doubling raise ethical issues?
More organizations depend on computer systems for critical operations and become vulnerable to system failures
Why does data storage costs declining raise ethical issues?
Organizations can easily maintain detailed databases on individuals.
There are no limits on the data collected about you.
Why do data analysis advances raise ethical issues?
Companies can analyze vast quantities of data gathered on individuals to develop detailed profiles of individual behavior.
Large-scale population surveillance is enabled.
Why do networking advances raise ethical issues?
The cost of moving data and making it accessible from anywhere falls exponentially.
Access to data becomes more difficult to control.
What does mobile device growth impact raise ethical issues?
Individual cell phones may be tracked without user consent or knowledge.
The always-on device becomes a tether.
What is the EU directive on privacy?
In Europe, privacy protection is much more stringent than in the United States.
European countries do not allow businesses to use personally identifiable information without consumer’s prior consent.
The directive requires companies to inform people when they will collect information about them and disclose how it will be stored and used.
Customers must provide informed consent before any company can legally use data about them, and they have the right to access the information, correct it, and request that not further data be collected.
What is a safe harbor?
A private, self-regulating policy and enforcement mechanism that meets the objectives of government regulators and legislation but does not involve government regulation or enforcement.
Why are safe harbors important?
Working with the European Commission, the US Department of Commerce developed a safe harbor framework for US firms.
US businesses would be allowed to use personal data from EU countries if they develop privacy protection policies that meet EU standards.
Enforcement would occur in the United States by using self-policing regulation, and government enforcement of fair trade statues.
