ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Information Processing Society, Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Bar Association
29 Oct 2016
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Social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Understanding ethical and social issues related to systems. Employees using corporate it for personal use. Nora technology can take information about people from disparate sources and find obscure, nonobvious relationships. It might discover, for example, that an applicant for a job at a casino shares a telephone number with a known criminal and issue an alert to the hiring manager. Responsibility: accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for your decisions. Liability: permits individuals to recover damages done to them. Ethical analysis: identify and describe the facts clearly, define the conflict or dilemma, and identify the higher-order values involved, identify the stakeholders, identify the options that you can reasonably take, identify the potential consequences of your options. Professional codes of conduct: promises by professionals to regulate themselves in the general interest of society, promulgated by associations such as the. Information rights: privacy and freedom in the internet age.
