Chapter 4; Personal, Legal, Ethical and Organizational Issues Flashcards
Privacy Issues and information accessibility
control between private information and public information. Information is accessible with ease
Privacy Issues in organizational context
employers search social networking sites, employee monitoring system
Privacy Issues Through Email:
Individuals should assume
rule of thumb
companies have access to emails
any email using company computer is company properly
Misuse and abuse of information gathered by….
usually personal and private
Healthcare
Financial Institutions
Legal Firms
Government
Web Data Collection
pros
cons
pros: e-commerce, share shopping tastes and details
cons: personal information is shared, spam emails
Acceptable Use Policy
rules specify legal/ethical use of a system and consequences of ignorance
Accountability
user’s and the organization’s responsibilities and liabilities
Nonrepudiation:
Method for binding all the parties to a contract
Web Data Collection : Cookies and cookie manager
small text files with unique ID tags embedded in web browser and saved on user’s hard drive
cookie manager helps users disable cookies
When are cookies an invasion of privacy
users information is used without prior consent
Web Data Collection: Log Flies
how can they investigate
generated by web server software, record a users actions on website
- diagnose a problem or report suspicious activity
Privacy issues with analytics and and online behaviour
predict political affiliations, religions, intelligence, attributes, behaviour (correlation)
How to solve privacy issues
federal laws, business laws, contract review to regulate collecting and using information on people and corporations
Ethics diagram
Ethical and legal, Ethical and illegal
unethical and legal, unethical and illegal
Legal Issues of Information Technology (3)
Intellectual Property
Industrial Property
Copyrighted Material
Intellectual Property
Legal umbrella, protections that involve copyrights, trademarks, and patents developed by people or business
Industrial Property
inventions, trademarks, logos, designs
Copyrighted material
literary or artistic works
online materials etc web pages, code, graphics
trademark
protect names and identifying marks
Patent
protect inventions and new processes
Web Violation of IP: Cybersquatting
Registering, selling, or using a domain name to profit from someone else’s trademark
Web Violation of IP: Typosquatting
relies on typographical errors made by web -> predict domain error typos
Digital Divide
Those who have technology vs those who do not want to have it or cannot afford
How to prevent digital divide
increase funding for technology, loaner programs, promote using non-technology methods,
