ISYS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Free Moral Agents, Information System, Data Mining
18 Nov 2017
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Big databases and data mining technologies can be helpful to business firms, but they can also harm individuals. Demonstrates it"s role in generating ethical issue. Recent cases of failed ethical judgment in business. In many, information systems used to bury decisions from public scrutiny. Principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors. Information systems raise new ethical questions because they create opportunities for. Intense social change, threatening existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations. Model for thinking about ethical, social, and political issues. It as rock dropped in pond, creating ripples of new situations not covered by old rules. Social and political institutions cannot respond overnight to these ripples it may take years to develop etiquette, expectations, laws. Requires understanding of ethics to make choices in legally gray areas. Five moral dimensions of the information age. More organizations depend on computer systems for critical operations.
