1. Business Plug-In B7
Ethics

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Explain the ethical issues in the use of information technology.
Identify the six epolicies organizations should implement to protect themselves.

3. INFORMATION ETHICS
Ethics—The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people
Information Ethics—Govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself
Important ethical concepts stemming from IT:
Intellectual Property
Copyright
Pirated Software
Counterfeit Software

4. INFORMATION ETHICS

5. INFORMATION DOES NOT HAVE ETHICS, PEOPLE DO
Information Management—Examines the organizational resource of information and regulates its definitions, uses, value, and distribution ensuring it has the types of data/information required to function and grow effectively
Information Governance—Is a method or system of government for information management or control

6. INFORMATION DOES NOT HAVE ETHICS, PEOPLE DO
Information Compliance—Is the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding information
Ediscovery—Refers to the ability of a company to identify, search, gather, seize, or export digital information in responding to a litigation, audit, investigation, or information inquiry

7. DEVELOPING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT POLICIES
Organizations should develop written policies establishing employee guidelines, employee procedures, and organizational rules for information
Epolicies—Policies and procedures that address the ethical use of computers and Internet usage

8. ETHICAL COMPUTER USE POLICY
Regardless of what business a company operates the company must protect itself from unethical employee behavior
Ethical Computer Use Policy—Contains general principles to guide computer user behavior
The users should be informed of the rules and, by agreeing to use the system on that basis, consent to abide by them

9. ETHICAL COMPUTER USE POLICY

10. INFORMATION PRIVACY POLICY
Information Privacy Policy—Contains general principles regarding information privacy
In a large majority of cases, the unethical use of information happens not through the malicious scheming of a rogue marketer, but rather unintentionally

11. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)—A policy that a user must agree to follow in order to be provided access to a network or to the Internet
Nonrepudiation—A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny (repudiate) their online actions
Internet Use Policy—Contains general principles to guide the proper use of the Internet

12. PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy—Details the extent to which messages may be read by others.
One major problem with is the user’s expectations of privacy
Spam—Is unsolicited
Anti-Spam Policy simply states that users will not send unsolicited s (or spam)

13. SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
Social Media Policy—Outlines the corporate guidelines or principles governing employee online communications
Social media policies a company might choose to implement include:
Employee online communication policy
Employee blogs
Employee social network websites
Employee Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Corporate YouTube policy

14. WORKPLACE MONITORING POLICY
The dilemma surrounding employee monitoring in the workplace is that an organization is placing itself at risk if it fails to monitor its employees, however, some people feel that monitoring employees is unethical
Monitoring—Tracking people’s activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate, and number of transactions processed
Employee Monitoring Policies—Explicitly state how, when, and where the company monitors its employees

15. WORKPLACE MONITORING POLICY
Common Internet monitoring technologies:
Key logger or key trapper software
Hardware key logger
Cookie
Adware
Spyware
Web log
Clickstream