Ethics and privacy are important standards regarding how individuals should be treated. Privacy involves protecting an individual's personal space and control over their body, behavior, communications, and personal data. Personal data should not be shared without consent, and individuals have a right to access and control how their information is collected and used. Maintaining data privacy and ethics involves responsibly and appropriately handling people's private information according to their expectations and relevant laws and regulations.

1. By Dr Mohammad Zunnun Khan

2.  1. Ethics
 Ethics are standards of moral conduct
 Standards of right and wrong behavior
 A gauge of personal integrity
 The basis of trust and cooperation in relationships with others
 2. Privacy is the interest that
 individuals have in sustaining a 'personal space',
 free from interference by other people and organizations.

3.  Privacy of the person
 the right of each individual to have the integrity of his/her body
protected.
 Persons should not be compelled into providing any kind of fluids or
biological samples, being given blood transfusion without consent,
being subjected to any kind of surgical intervention without consent
(invasive techniques within research).
 Privacy of personal behavior,
 all aspects of behavior,
 especially to sensitive matters,
 preferences and habits,
 political activities and
 religious practices,
 both in private and in public places.

4.  Privacy of personal communications,
 Individuals free to communicate among themselves,
 Using different communication channel
 without monitoring of their communications by other persons or
organizations.
 Privacy of personal data.
 Data about individuals should not be automatically made available to
others
 even when data is possessed by another party.
 Each person must be able to exercise a substantial degree of control
over that data and its use.

5.  The use of unlicensed software is illegal, plain and simple.
 Downloading commercial software is unethical, as it is the
virtual equivalent of stealing.
 Piracy is the theft of intellectual property and is no more
acceptable than shoplifting.
 Software pirates attempt to make several arguments justifying
their actions.
 Such arguments are software is too expensive and pirates are
just testing it and will buy it if they like it.

6.  Data privacy is responsibly collecting, using and storing data
about people, in line with the expectations of those people, your
customers, regulations and laws.
 Data ethics is doing the right thing with data, considering the
human impact from all sides, and making decisions based on
your brand values.

7.  Data privacy (or information privacy or data protection) is about
access, use and collection of data, and the data subject’s legal
right to the data. This refers to:
 Freedom from unauthorized access to private data
 Inappropriate use of data
 Accuracy and completeness when collecting data about a person
or persons (corporations included) by technology
 Availability of data content, and the data subject’s legal right to
access; ownership
 The rights to inspect, update or correct these data