MGT 417

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
BUSINESS

Topic : Ethics and Privacy

Students name : Farah Athirah Bt
Mohd Nawayai @ Mohd Nawawi
Class: PH2402D
ID Student : 2015418722
Lectures name : Kharie Shafariz
Bin Shah Budin

CONTENT
Ethics
Categories of ethical issue
Privacy
Rules in Privacy
Threats to privacy
Protecting Privacy

Ethics and Privacy

The principles of right and wrong that

individuals use to make choices that guide
their behavior.

our General Categories of Ethical Iss

1.Privacy Issues
involve collecting, storing, and disseminating
information about individuals
2.Accuracy Issues
involve the authenticity, fidelity, and correctness
of information that is collected and processed
3.Property Issues
involve the ownership and value of information
4.Accessibility Issues
revolve around who should have access to
information and whether a fee should be paid for
this access

Privacy
The right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal
intrusions

Information Privacy
The right to determine when, and to what
extent, information about you can be
gathered and/or communicated to others

Many countries have followed this two

rules :
1.The right of privacy
must be balanced
society.

is not absolute. Privacy

against the needs of

2.The publics right to know supersedes the

individuals right of privacy.

Threats to Privacy
Data aggregators, digital dossiers, and profiling
Electronic Surveillance
Personal Information in Databasees.
Information on Internet Bulletin Boards,
Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites

Dataaggregators
are companies that collect public data (e.g., real estate records,
telephone numbers) and nonpublic data (e.g., social security
numbers, financial data, police records, motor vehicle records) and
integrate them to produce digital dossiers.

Data integrated from data gathered about

you in a typical day (surveillance cameras
located on toll roads, on other roadways, in
busy intersections, in public places, and at
work; credit card transactions; telephone
calls (landline and cellular); banking
transactions; queries to search engines; and
government records (including police
records).

Profiling is the process of creating a digital dossier

Electronic Surveillance. The tracking of

peoples activities, online or offline, with the aid of
computers.
The image demonstrates that many people are
blissfully unaware that they can be under
electronic surveillance while they are using their
computers.

Protecting Privacy

Privacy Codes and Policies

An organizations guidelines with respect to protecting the
privacy of customers, clients, and employees.
.

Opt-outmodel

informed consent permits the company to collect personal information until

the customer specifically requests that the data not be collected.

Opt-inmodel

informed consent means that organizations are prohibited from collecting

any personal information unless the customer specifically authorizes it .

InternationalAspectsofPrivacy
Privacy issues that international organizations and
governments face when information spans countries
and jurisdictions