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ETHICS IN AN INFORMATION
SOCIETY
• BY Prakash Raval
• Responsibility
• Accountability
• Liability
• Due Process
Basic Concepts
• 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
• Due process: Laws are well known and understood, with
an ability to appeal to higher authorities
• Identify and describe the facts
• Define the conflict or dilemma, the values involved
• Identify the stakeholders
• Identify the options
• Identify the consequences
Ethical Analysis
• 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, then it is not right for
anyone
• Descartes’ rule of change: If an action cannot be
taken repeatedly, then it is not right to be taken at any
time
Candidate Ethical Principles
• Utilitarian Principle: Take the action that achieves the
greatest value for all concerned
• Risk Aversion Principle: Take the action that produces
the least harm or incurs the least cost to all
concerned
• Ethical “no free lunch” rule: Assume that all tangible
and intangible objects are owned by someone else,
unless shown the contrary. If someone has created
something of value to you, that person probably
wants compensation for your use
Candidate Ethical Principles
(Continued)
• Promises by professions to regulate themselves in
the general interest of society
• Promulgated by associations such as the American
Medical Association (AMA), and the American Bar
Association (ABA)
Professional Codes of Conduct
• Using systems to increase efficiency, and causing
layoffs and personal hardships
• Using systems to monitor employee e-mail to protect
valuable assets, but decreasing employee privacy
• Monitoring employee use of the Internet at work,
decreasing employee privacy
Some Real-World IT Ethical Dilemmas
• Using huge databases to aggregate consumer
information, reducing the costs of granting credit, but
increasing the chance of losing personal data to
criminals, terrorists, or others
Some Real-World IT Ethical Dilemmas
(Continued)

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Ethics in an information society

  • 1. ETHICS IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY • BY Prakash Raval
  • 2. • Responsibility • Accountability • Liability • Due Process Basic Concepts
  • 3. • 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 • Due process: Laws are well known and understood, with an ability to appeal to higher authorities
  • 4. • Identify and describe the facts • Define the conflict or dilemma, the values involved • Identify the stakeholders • Identify the options • Identify the consequences Ethical Analysis
  • 5. • 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, then it is not right for anyone • Descartes’ rule of change: If an action cannot be taken repeatedly, then it is not right to be taken at any time Candidate Ethical Principles
  • 6. • Utilitarian Principle: Take the action that achieves the greatest value for all concerned • Risk Aversion Principle: Take the action that produces the least harm or incurs the least cost to all concerned • Ethical “no free lunch” rule: Assume that all tangible and intangible objects are owned by someone else, unless shown the contrary. If someone has created something of value to you, that person probably wants compensation for your use Candidate Ethical Principles (Continued)
  • 7. • Promises by professions to regulate themselves in the general interest of society • Promulgated by associations such as the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Bar Association (ABA) Professional Codes of Conduct
  • 8. • Using systems to increase efficiency, and causing layoffs and personal hardships • Using systems to monitor employee e-mail to protect valuable assets, but decreasing employee privacy • Monitoring employee use of the Internet at work, decreasing employee privacy Some Real-World IT Ethical Dilemmas
  • 9. • Using huge databases to aggregate consumer information, reducing the costs of granting credit, but increasing the chance of losing personal data to criminals, terrorists, or others Some Real-World IT Ethical Dilemmas (Continued)