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1 CHAPTER 3 Ethics and Privacy

2 Outline for Today Chapter 3: Ethics and Privacy Tech Guide: Protecting Information Assets

3 Chapter Opening Case

4 Questions about Wikileaks Was it legal for Wikileaks to post this information? Who is acting unethical? Wikileaks US Government Both

5 Chapter 3 - Ethics How do you define ethics? 5

6 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

7 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

8 Ethics in the Corporate Environment Code of ethics / conduct Microsoft Google Fundamental tenets of ethics 1. Responsibility 2. Accountability 3. Liability

9 Unethical vs. Illegal Is everything that is unethical also illegal? Enron World Com Subprime Mortgages Other Examples

10 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) Employers can and will monitor employees at work!

11 Ethics and Information Technology Do emails last forever? This can also applies to messaging at companies.

12 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

13 Ethics and Information Technology Four categories of ethical issues involving IT applications : Privacy Issues Accuracy Issues Property Issues Accessibility Issues

14 How much privacy do we have left? Don’t forget: You can copy- paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll. 1)We Still Have a high level of privacy 2)We are beginning to have less privacy 3)Privacy? What’s that?

15 Privacy Court decisions have followed two rules: (1) The right of privacy is not absolute. Your privacy must be balanced against the needs of society. (2) The public’s right to know is superior to the individual’s right of privacy.

16 Ex. Google and User Data http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507441/the-us-governments-growing-appetite-for-google-users-data/

17 Ex. Mobile Device Location

18 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

19 Data Aggregators, Digital Dossiers, and Profiling © Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

20 Electronic Surveillance © Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc. What are employee rights against surveillance?

21 Electronic Surveillance A Face in the crowd: Say goodbye to anonymity

22 Personal Information in Databases Banks Utility companies Government agencies Credit reporting agencies © Nicolas Nadjar/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

23 Information on Internet Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites © Marina Bordjieva/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

24 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

25 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.

26 Protecting Privacy Privacy Codes and Policies Ex. Facebook, AppleFacebookApple Opt-out Model Opt-in Model © Gunnar/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

27 Tech Guide 5 Protecting Your Information Assets

28 Information Assets What is meant when we say information assets?

29 Behavioral Actions Protect SSN# Secure credit cards Physical Virtual Debit Cards vs. Credit Cards Proactive Protection

30 Identity Theft Dumpster Diving Skimming Phishing Changing your address Old-Fashioned Stealing Pretexting Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft2012/

31 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

32 Computer-Based Actions Information in SNS Manage Patches Browser and Operating Systems

33 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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