ISYS 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Free Moral Agents, Computer Hardware, Copyright Infringement
18 Nov 2017
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Chapter 4 - ethical and social issues in information systems. 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. Five moral dimensions of the information age. Define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values involved. Identify the options that you can reasonably take. Enable companies to gather personal data from many sources about individuals and analyze these data. Traditional copyright laws are insufficient to protect against software piracy because digital material can be copied so easily and transmitted to many locations simultaneously over the internet. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
