IS 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Categorical Imperative, Copyright Infringement, Domain Registration

• School: UTSA
• Department: IS - Information Systems
• Course: IS 3003
• Professor: Nasim Talebi

Document Summary

Ethics: principles/standards of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices and guide their behavior. Key tech trends that raise ethical issues: doubling of computer power. More orgs depend on computer systems for critical operations: rapidly declining data storage costs. Orgs can easily maintain detailed databases on individuals: networking advances and the internet. Copying data from one location to another and accessing personal data from remote locations are much easier: mobile device growth. Tracking of individual cell phones: advances in data analysis techniques. Profiling: combining data from multiple sources to create dossiers. Non obvious relationship awareness (nora): combining data of detailed information on individual from multiple sources to find obscure hidden connections that might help identify criminals or terrorists. Basic concepts for ethical analysis: definitions: for decisions. Responsibility: accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations. Liability: permits individuals (and firms) to recover damages done.