Paper B1-Privacy-Related Matrix

Paper B1-Privacy-Related Matrix

IT Related Organizational Ethical Issue

Ethics is a set of principles that establishes what is right and what is wrong for individuals and organizations use to guide behavior. IT require new ethical issues, because they generate benefits and costs both for individuals and companies, creating opportunities for change for social progress, but threaten social values and patterns of distribution of power, money, duties and obligations inducing crime (Zwass, 2012).

Ethical and social policies intertwine, individuals know how to act as social institutions (family, organization) have rules of behavior associated with laws developed in the political sector, but due to the rapid changes it is difficult to adapt them. The information society has different action levels: individual, social and political with new technologies require ethical, social, political and moral dimensions with necessary: rights and duties and information about the property, and system quality of life, providing accountability and control (Smith, Dinev & Xu, 2011).

Table 1: IT related issues Matrix

Serial no.

Facts

Ethical Issues

Relevant Laws

Policies

1

The software is a severe challenge to intellectual property regimes; they are easily duplicated and transmitted changed by using the Internet, not only them, but books and other songs that are scanned.

The main issue is to protect the intellectual property of software, books, music or videos scanned, as IT software are easily copied and distributed threatening development speed productivity and welfare, to the theft of a clip can be considered.

To improve these situations the Law of Direct Digital Millennium Authorship (DMCA) through treaty called the World Intellectual Property Organization can be used (Zwass, 2012).

Policy issues related to the creation of laws that ensure investments made by software developers, digital books and entertainment in order to prevent piracy. In companies using the software is limited by a licensing to avoid duplication and infringement of rights that ...