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CHAPTER 3 Ethics and Privacy
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Outline for Today Chapter 3: Ethics and Privacy Tech Guide: Protecting Information Assets REMINDER: Project 1 due tonight before midnight!
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A Reminder on Cheating COPYING OF OTHERS’ FILES JOINTLY WORKING ON THE SAME BASE FILES (meaning two or more students work on the same assignment on the same machine at the same time) PROVIDING YOUR FILES TO OTHER STUDENTS Handing in the work of others In addition, hands-on open book assignments permit the use of books and written notes, but not electronic files or the use of student computers. Cheating of any kind shall result in a grade of zero (0) on the test, assignment, project or quiz in question with a minimum deduction of ONE LETTER GRADE for the class, and a note to the Office of the Dean of Students. The second instance of cheating will result in the grade of an F for the class.
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Chapter Opening Case http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/ Internet Data Broker Consumer s Marketers
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Another Case
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Questions about Cases Is this legal? Who is acting unethical?
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Chapter 3 - Ethics How do you define ethics? 7
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3.1 Ethical Issues - Standards Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices that guide their behavior Guidelines/Approaches
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General Framework for Ethics 1. Recognize an ethical issue 2. Get the facts 3. Evaluate alternative actions 4. Make a decision and test it 5. Act and reflect on the outcome of your decision
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Ethics in the Corporate Environment Code of ethics / conduct Microsoft Google Fundamental tenets of ethics 1. 2. 3.
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Unethical vs. Illegal Is everything that is unethical also illegal? Enron World Com Subprime Mortgages Other Examples
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Ethics and Information Technology Ethical use of information and information technology Should organizations: monitor employees? sell customer info? audit employee computers? (unauthorized software or content)
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Ethics and Information Technology Do emails last forever? This can also apply to messaging at companies.
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Advice for Organization Use 1.Only use company computer for business related work 2.Don’t send emails you wouldn’t want your parents to see 3.Limit who you give work email to
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Ethics and Information Technology Four categories of ethical issues involving IT applications :
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How much privacy do we have left? 1)We Still Have a high level of privacy 2)We are beginning to have less privacy 3)Privacy? What’s that?
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Privacy Court decisions have followed two rules:
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Ex. Google and User Data http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507441/the-us-governments-growing-appetite-for-google-users-data/
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Ex. Mobile Device Location
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Threats to Privacy Data aggregators, digital dossiers, and profiling Electronic Surveillance Personal Information in Databases Information on Internet Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites
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Data Aggregators, Digital Dossiers, and Profiling © Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc.
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Electronic Surveillance © Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc. What are employee rights against surveillance?
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Electronic Surveillance A Face in the crowd: Say goodbye to anonymity
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Personal Information in Databases Banks Utility companies Government agencies Credit reporting agencies © Nicolas Nadjar/Age Fotostock America, Inc.
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Information on Internet Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites © Marina Bordjieva/Age Fotostock America, Inc.
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Social Networking Sites Can Cause You Problems Anyone can post derogatory information about you anonymously. (See this Washington Post article.)article You can also hurt yourself, as this article shows.article
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What Can You Do? First, be careful what information you post on social networking sites. Second, a company, ReputationDefender, says it can remove derogatory information from the Web.
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Protecting Privacy Privacy Codes and Policies Ex. Facebook, AppleFacebookApple Opt-out Model vs. Opt-in Model
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Tech Guide 5 Protecting Your Information Assets
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Information Assets What is meant when we say information assets?
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Behavioral Actions Protect SSN# Secure credit cards Physical Virtual Debit Cards vs. Credit Cards Proactive Protection
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Identity Theft Dumpster Diving Skimming Phishing Changing your address Old-Fashioned Stealing Pretexting Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft2012/
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Computer-Based Actions Know what sites have been visited Infected Computers Malware Infections Anti-Virus (http://www.uncw.edu/ITSD/help/antivirus.html)http://www.uncw.edu/ITSD/help/antivirus.html Security suite (ZoneAlarm)ZoneAlarm Antispyware (Ad-Aware)Ad-Aware
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Computer-Based Actions Information in SNS Manage Patches Browser and Operating Systems
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Portable Devices and Information Data Encryption Password Protect Locating Devices Prey Project Find my iPhone Where’s My Droid http://thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com/
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