Week 10 - Legal/Ethical and DB admin Flashcards
Ethics
A system of moral values.
Ethical behaviour
Doing what is right, according to the standards of society
Issue with doing what is right according to society’s standards.
Whose society? Ethical behaviour in one culture may be unethical in another.
Laws
Enforcing certain ethical behaviours
Benefit of having ethical codes of practice
Helps determine whether specific laws should be introduced.
What do we rely on to fill the gap between the time technology creates new problems and the time when new laws are introduced?
Ethics.
Database Administration
A specialized area within a large information systems department that is separate from the application development area
Application Development
Includes systems analysis, systems design, programming and systems testing