ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deloitte, Mobile Device, Data Analysis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Alexander Cram

Document Summary

The big data example: problem, opportunities from new technology, undeveloped legal environment, technological innovations can be double-edged sword, examples, organizations like deloitte consulting use modeling to identify individual customers that fit risk or vulnerable profile. Other real-world ethical dilemmas: using technology to reduce workforce, selling subscriber information to advertisers, facebook monitors users and sells information to advertisers and app developers, employees using corporate it for personal use, using it to monitor employees. Technical solutions: solutions include, email encryption, anti-spyware tools, browser features, private browsing , technical solutions failed to protect users from being tracked from one site to another. Challenges to intellectual property rights: digital media different from physical media, ease of replication, ease of transmission, ease of alteration, digital millennium, makes it illegal to circumvent technology-based protections of copyrighted materials. If software fails, who is responsible: software producer, and operator may be liable, author/publisher.