ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intellectual Property, Resistance 3, Unemployment Benefits

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Joseph Lee

Document Summary

In 2002, mark hill, a vp with westjet, used the password of an air canada"s ex- employee to get information on flights, load factors on different routes etc. In 2004, ac sued westjet for millions. In 2006, out of court settlement of . 5 millions - million to charities and . 5 millions to ac. Ethics: acting ethically and legally are not always the same. It s the people who owns the information to develop ethical guidelines on how to best manage the information. Monitoring is required: must communicate with employees regarding monitoring. Ethics students in class: cheating, surfing the net, social networking. Laws and copyright legislation desgined to protect digital content and intellectual properties. Fair dealing: feature in canadian copyright law that permits certain use of copyrighted material, research, private study, news reporting, criticism, review. Is about how personal information is collected and shared. Pipeda"s 10 guiding principles: accountability an organization is presponsible for personal information under its control.