M3 IT blog
The term ethics means the study of values and equality. Also it
means the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting
of an activity. Ethics could define as doing the right thing. For example some
organisations are not ethical as they don’t do the right thing. However the
body shop seems to be ethical. Ethics also means to have good intensions.
It is important to consider ethics when
dealing with personal information in an organisation because the personal
information should be kept private and the information needs to be secure from
other people knowing who don’t require to know about the personal information. It
is important that the organisation keeps the personal information safe as the
customer trusts the organisation as the customer provides the organisation with
personal information. This now becomes the responsibility of the organisation
to keep the information safe and only use the information when required to do
so.
Freedom of information is the right to require
public information as taxpayers own parts of public
organisations. The advantage to an
organisation for having freedom of information is that they will have more
people interested in their organisation so this could lead to taxpayers wanting
to contribute in that organisation.
Organisational IT security can be affected by freedom of information
going to the wrong person as the person could be an attacker wanting to use
organisations information for their own benefit. This links with ethics as attacker’s
dont have ethics and dont have the right ethics because they want to make money
from the information they requested for example.
Personal privacy is revelling too much about
yourself or an organisation. The advantages to this are that it prevents crime
and solve crime track movements. Also for emergency cases personal information
being know is good thing. The disadvantages to this are that privacy is invaded
because organisations and people know personal information about you. In
extreme cases organisations or people who know your personal information may
decide to use your information for their own advantage. Data protection act makes sure that your
information is safe when giving to organisations or people who might need to
know personal information. Data protection act makes sure that your data is
safe by giving the attacker a consequence for using information that is
private. That’s why some attackers get scared to use other people information
as they punished for doing so. Personal privacy can get affected by
organisational IT security because attackers could use the person’s information
for their own advantage. This could lead to the person’s information being
leaked. This links with ethics as some people find it very hard to do the right
thing that is not to use people’s information when it’s not allowed.
The current issues regarding to the use of
cctv, videos and photos to capture movements is that people’s privacy is
affected from this. As people dont really like being watched when they doing
their things like going shopping or going to work. The ethical issues attached
to this are that people are being watched without their permission and they are
not that happy about it. However cctv are there for protection for the general
public and to stop crime happening. So this means ethics are used in good way
and bad way.
I have talked about freedom of information,
private privacy and permission. Also i have talked about the ethics linked with
each section. In my opinion ethical
practices are used in organisations to protect customers and patients
information give to them. However in some cases good ethics are not used
because the organisation might use the person’s information without permission
and they use for their own advantage.
