COMMERCE 2KA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Occupational Disease, Patent Office, Copyright Law Of Canada
16 Sep 2014
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Chapter 4- social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Information rights and obligations: property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, quality of life. More organizations depend on computer systems for critical operations. Organizations can easily maintain detailed databases on individuals. Companies can analyze vast quantities of data gathered on individuals to develop detailed profiles of individual behavior. Copying data from one location to another and accessing personal data from remote locations are much easier. Profiling: the use of computers to combine data from multiple sources and create electronic dossiers of detailed information on individuals. Nonobvious relationship awareness (nora): a new data analysis technology has given both the government and the private sector even more powerful profiling capabilities. It can take information from many sources and correlate relationships to find obscure hidden connections that might help to find criminals or terrorists. Ethics: a concern for humans who have freedom of choice.
