Chapter 6

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Ch 6 - Ethics and Privacy

6.1 Ethical issues

Ethics - describes a person's personal guidelines of right and wrong that shape their behavioural decisions.
The main representatives of ethical standards -
Utilitarian approach: Providing the greatest good/lowest harm
Rights Approach: Protecting and conserving an individual's moral rights
Fairness approach: Treating all equally or justly
Common good approach: Benefiting the welfare of the whole community

There are four categories of IT-related ethical issues - privacy, accuracy, property and accessibility. Posing concern to things such as the gathering, legitimacy, ownership and the accessing of information.

6.1 Privacy

Privacy: the right of freedom from unwanted intrusion. From physical to informational privacy. 

The Privacy Act of 1988 was specifically put in place to regulate and protect an individuals informational privacy.

Threats of privacy -
  • Electronic surveillance
  • personal information in databases
  • Information on Internet bulletin boards, newsgroups, and social networking sites
Privacy codes and policies set in place directions for organisations to support, protect and maintain customers'/clients' and employees' privacy.
Based on this responsibility of private information being ethical, opt-out and opt-in models supply a choice based on the customer's requests.


In a business setting, all aspects, including finance, marketing, HR, and management, require maintaining policies and holding responsibility over information. Although it can be difficult to distinguish right from wrong, ethical organisations will action standards to produce the greatest outcome, protect moral rights, and uphold the respect of internal and external users, e.g., customers, employees, and competitors.

Gray, H., Issa, T., Pye, G., Troshani, I., Rainer, R. K., Prince, B., & Hugh, J. W. (2015). Management information systems. Wiley.
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Quote of the week:  

"Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect." - Bruce Schneier

Comments

  1. Jasmine A30 April 2024 at 12:34

    Great Job! your format is concise and well-organized, utilizing clear headings and bulleted lists to outline the main concepts of Chapter 6 on ethics and privacy. It maintains a logical flow and consistency throughout, making it easy to understand and follow.

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  2. Gen Mowbray2 May 2024 at 22:56

    I loved how you delved specifically into the IT-related ethic issues and the policies that people set in place to try and prevent privacy breaches from happening from both internal and external users of the internet. Nice work!

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  3. Shem C4 May 2024 at 22:59

    A very well laid out post. I liked how you highlighted the important points in bold. The use of a quote really added to the overall post and mixed it up.

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  4. Graham7 May 2024 at 17:51

    Great summary again Sophie! Always really easy to follow through your post since its structured so well and clear! I also love your quote of the week from Bruce!

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  5. Elwyn14 May 2024 at 05:56

    Sophie, you did a good job. I enjoy how your blog combines creative with insightful content. Your writing style is compelling.

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  6. s2312552919 May 2024 at 18:04

    Nice Summary Sophie, I agreed with a lot of your points as it covered what we learnt in class. I agree with your conclusion as it is a good way to end the blog, relating all the business functions to this weeks class topic, ethics and privacy.

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