ADMS 2511 Study Guide - Cybercrime, Reverse Engineering, Certified Public Accountant
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Ethical issues ethics are the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors. Companies develop a code of ethics to guide decision making. Fundamentals of ethics are responsibility, accountability, and liability. The sarbanes-oxley act was passed in 2002 after the enron and. Worldcom incidents which requires public companies to certify financial reports. Ethical problems are on the rise due to the computers increasing in processing speed. Protecting privacy privacy is the right to be left alone. Information privacy is the right to determine what information about you is divulged. Data gathered about you is called digital dossier. This process is called profiling: electronic surveillance employees have very little protection against surveillance from employers. According to law, employers can read emails and track internet usage. Url filtering can be employed to block access to sites etc: personal information in databases credit reporting agencies are example of personal information databases.