This document discusses various ethical, social, and political issues related to information systems. It provides examples of companies like Enron that misused information systems unethically. It presents models for analyzing the ripple effects of new technologies and how ethical analysis involves identifying facts, stakeholders, options, and consequences. The document also discusses principles that can guide ethical decisions, such as responsibility, accountability, and privacy rights. It emphasizes that as technology changes society rapidly, ethics are needed to make choices in legally gray areas.

1. •Group members;
Ehtisaam Javed
Ethical
and Social issues

2. Student objectives
 What ethical, social and political issues are
raised by information system?
 What specific principals for conduct can be
used to guide ethical decisions?

3.  Recent cases of failed ethical
judgment in business
 Enron , Worldcom , Parmalat
 In many information systems used to bury
decisions.
 Ethics
 Principles of right and wrong that individuals
acting as free moral agents use to make
choices to guide their behavior.

4.  Information System & Ethics
 Information system raise new
ethical questions because they
create opportunities for;
 Intense social change, threatening existing
distributions of power, money, rights and
obligations.
 New kinds of crime.

5.  A model for thinking about ethical, social
and political issues.
 Society as a calm pond.
 IT as rock dropped in pond, creating
ripples of new situations not covered by
old rules.
 Social and political institutions cannot
respond overnight to these ripple it may
take years to develop etiquette,
expectation, laws.
 Requires understanding of ethics to
make choices in legally gray areas.

6. Basic concepts for ethical
analysis
 Responsibility:
 Accepting the potential costs, duties,
and obligations for decisions.
 Accountability:
 Mechanisms for identifying responsible
parties.
 Liability:
 Permits individuals and firms to recover
damages done to them

7. Ethical analysis: A FIVE
STEP PROCESS
 Identify and clearly describe the facts.
 Identify the stakeholders.
 Identify the options that you can reasonably
take.
 Identify the potencial consequences of your
options.

8. Candidate ethical principles
 Golden rule do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.
 Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative
 If an action is not right for everyone to
take, it is not right for anyone.
 Descartes rule of change
 If an action cannot be taken repeatedly,
it is not right to take at all.

9.  Candidate ethical principles
 Utilitarian principal
 Take the action that achieves the higher
and greater value
 Risk aversion principal
 Take the action that produces the least
harm or least potential cost
 Ethical “no free launch” rule
 Assume that virtually all tangible and
intangible objects are owned by
someone unless there is a specific
declaration otherwise

10.  Information Rights: Privacy and
Freedom in the internet age.
 Privacy: Claim of individuals to be left
alone, free from surveillance or
interference from other individuals,
organizations or state. Claim to be able
to control information about yourself.
 In U.S protected by:
 First Amendment.
 Fourth Amendment.

11.  Internet challenges to privacy
 Cookies:
 Tiny files downloaded by website to
visitor’s hard drive.
 Identify visitor’s browser and track visits
the site.
 Allow websites to develop profiles on
visitors.
 Web Bugs:
 Tiny graphics embedded in email
messages and web pages.
 Designed to moniter who is reading

12. What is ethics and its Value in
IT?
 In very simple term ethics is nothing
more than your belief towards the action
and happening situations.
 As the world is adopting the new
technology the need of ethics arises to

13. Beginning Of IT and EVAULATION of
Ethics Of IT
 Information Technology gets its huge
popularity after years 1995 when Microsoft
company initially launched the office
programs for computer
 Today whole World is relying on such office
suites

14. Control Over the piracy
Today people are becoming rare
who purchases things online.
Everyone is searching things for
free and privacy word commenced
from here only

15. Safeguard the Private
Information’s(Privacy)
 Whenever we create an account or
transact any payment online the
biggest concern is privacy
 To deal with such privacy problems
solutions are 2 way authentication,
Anti Spyware and more on

16. Ethics Followed In IT
 Never Piracy Online.
 Follow up the social reputation.
 Never harm the public Website.
 Never do fraud activities.
 Never create false Evidence Using It.

17.  World After Following Ethics in IT
(Summary)
 Stress Free Growth Becomes Possible.
 We can save upto 40% More Time.
 Confidence of Online Activities will grow More.