ITM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Information Processing Society, Canadian Bar Association

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Debashish Roy

Document Summary

Social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Illustrates the ethical questions inherent in online information gathering. Increased use of behavioural targeting has drawn attention of parliament and the office of the privacy commissioner. The relationship between ethical, social, and political issues in an information society. Information rights and obligations: property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, quality of life. Responsibility: accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for your decisions. Accountability: mechanisms for identifying responsible parties. 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. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you: immanuel kant"s categorical imperative: