Ch.3 Ethics and Privacy Flashcards
BTMA 317
Ethics ?
The principles of right and wrong used to make choices that guide their behavior.
5 Widely used Ethical standards
-Utilitarian Approach: Does the more good and the least harm
-Rights Approach: The one that protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties
-Fairness Approach: Treat people equally
-Common Good Approach: Everything is connected, and being ethical means caring and respecting everyone.
-Deontology: focus on the action not the result. you killed someone although it’s self defense it’s still wrong.
What are use to develop a general framework for ethics
The 5 standard approach.
2 types of Framework
The traditional ethical approach provides a tool for deciding on the nature of an action response that you can take. The (Giving Voice to Value )GVV approach provides tools for dealing with the ethical issue co-operatively.
Code of Ethics
A collection of principles used to guide decision making of others
Fundamental Tenets of Ethics
Responsibility
Accountability
Liability
What is unethical is illegal
False
Ethical Issues
Privacy
Accuracy
Property
Accessibility
Information Privacy
is the right to determine when or to what extent to share some information about you.
Privacy rights apply to only individuals
No, they apply to individuals, groups and institutions
What are the court decisions regarding privacy
- Privacy right is not absolute, must be balanced against the need of the society
-Public’s right to know supersedes privacy right.
Digital Dossier
An electronic profile of you and your habits
Profiling
The process of forming a digital dossier
Customer Intimacy
is the process whereby data aggregators give digital dossier to a company bc he wants to know more about the customer.
Types of Cookies
First Party Cookies: No tracking of activities on other websites
Third Party: are placed on a website by someone other than the owner to collect data
Web beacons/bugs: very small transparent graphic image to monitor behavior of the user.
IP addresses: provide city, postal code
Session replay scripts: records all your activity on a website
Favicons: help visitors identify their page easily when there’s lots of tap
Browser fingerprinting: integrates/ combines info. about your device