CBIS Week 14 Lecture

5 Steps to Ethical Dilemma

1. Get the facts 2. Determine who is affected 3. Search for precedents 4. List options 5. Deal with the consequences of the decision that was made

The 5 Ethical Dimensions

1. Information Rights 2. Copyrights and Intellectual Property 3. Control and Accountability 4. Establishing Standards 5. Quality of Life

Separating administrator high-level privileges into a separate user account, addresses

Privileged Access

The principle that states that when faced with an ethical dilemma a manager should choose the option that does the greatest good for the most people involved is called the

Utilitarian Principle

The Universalist Principle states that

a decision must be fair for all involved.

Morality

being virtuous

Intellectual Property

consists of human knowledge and ideas that are protected by law against unauthorized use.

Music files and video games are examples of what kind of property in the eyes of the law?

intellectual property

Normal User Access

- limited rights and don't want the admin privileges

IT Ethics Suggestions

- Always be transparent - Get another brain involved - Know your policies and the start practice with them - Make it very clear when someone is using privileges - If there isn't a technical restriction, use the spotlight approach - Consider if data can be anonymized if a lot of

Impact That Technology Has on Ethics

- Changes to the scope of effects/consequences - Disinhibition (anonymity) - Cheating - Work resources subject to stealing for personal use

UNM Employee Code of Conduct and Conflicts of Interests

As a public employee, you have to hold the highest standards of business ethics - don't APPEAR to be4 doing something inappropriate - certain employees will be able to make decisions

The Act that is important in specifically protecting email and VoIP communications is the

Electronic Communications Privacy Act

A company wants to begin monitoring the Internet usage of its office employees to ensure that their working hours are spent productively. What is the least that the company should do to respect its employees' rights to information privacy?

Inform employees of the monitoring and obtain their consent.

________ software allows managers to take control of an employee's computer remotely and record the computer's mouse and keyboard entries.

Remote Desktop

The Act that signed into law to monitor terrorist activities and communications following the 9/11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress is the

The US Patriot Act

Privledged Access

What you might give a system admin - they have more rights - need privileges to install software - "know the door is locked

A bank clerk has inappropriately used a customer's personal email address. The branch manager reprimands the employee and withholds an expected promotion. Which dimension of ethical behavior in the digital age is demonstrated by this disciplinary action?

control and accountability

This dimension of ethical behavior examines how individuals or corporations can be held accountable in case of violations of privacy or intellectual property rights

control and accountability

Which of the following actions would violate an organization's prohibitions on the personal use of company computers as well as the law in most countries?

distributing company-owned software without authorization

Living a virtuous life involves acting with high morals that are logically defined or shaped by

ethics

While a religious leader may provide guidance on how to uphold high morals, ________ provide the reasons for acting morally.

ethics

Organizations should separate IT access for administrators

from those people's

Gifts may be accepted if they do not

have any significant economic value.

To address the ethical concerns surrounding ________, many employee handbooks state that the organization must use data responsibly and always respect privacy.

information privacy rights

Ethics

involves making choices - what to do - what to say - what to think Can provide a framework that can lead to a virtuous life

A starting point to investigate the complex topic of a society's ethics is first to understand the society's _______ and the history behind the enacting of them

laws

Deepfake technology raises questions about the ethics of

modifying images or video by replacing one person's likeness with another's

Control and Accountability

one of the dimensions of ethical behavior, it refers to who is guilty when a violation of privacy takes place.

Information Rights

referring to ethical dilemmas this concerns the rights of individuals and organizations to privacy.

Which step of an ethical analysis is designed to enable a manager to obtain guidance or insights from other managers?

search for precedents

The notion of bringing to the attention of appropriate parties an 'unusual' request for information is called

spotlighting

Which law or set of laws was created to implement two World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties and to update copyright laws regulating digital material?

the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

Which principle of ethical conduct calls for allocating rewards equitably according to individuals' productivity?

the Principle of Distributive Justice

What is a company that purchases consumer behavior information from other organizations engaged in?

third-party data purchase

Quality of Life

when referring to ethical behavior it is a question of what does a society value more—the right to freedom of expression, or the right to not be harmed by others?

Common IT Ethical Dilemmas: Accessing Restricted Data

• Without permission - I wonder why my gf takes this medicine - • With Permission (Sort Of) - I'm Z's manager and they are on vacation, send --> is there a standard and documented process that gives you authority?