CH4

• 5 Moral Dimensions of the Information Age

  • Information rights and obligations
  • Property rights and obligations
  • Accountability and control
  • System quality
  • Quality of life
• Accountability

  System to track decision makers
• Professional association: american medical association (AMA), american bar association (ABA), association for computing machinery (ACM), Promises by profession to serve the public interest
• Computer-related Liability Problems


  • If software fails, who is responsible?
  • Software as part of a machine: both producer & operator
  • Software as a book: author or publisher
  • Software as a service: liability is different
• What ethical, social, political issues are raised by IS

  Recent failed cases of ethical judgment in business (Wells Fargo, General Motors), in many IS is used to hide decisions from public scan, IS creates new ethical questions because it creates new opportunities for intense social change, distributions of power, money, rights & obligations
• Information rights and obligations

  Individual and organizations
• Property rights and obligations

  Intellectuals property right in digital society
• Accountability and control

  Who's responsible for harm done to individuals rights
• System quality

  Standards of data and quality system used to protect rights and safety of society
• Quality life

  Preserving social value and culture practices supported by AT
• Basic concepts

  Responsibility

  Accountability

  Liability

  Due process
• Golden rule

  Treat others the way you want to be treated
• Kant's categorical imperative

  If an action isn't right to be taken by everyone it's not right to be taken by anyone
• Slippery sloppy rule

  If an action can't be taken repeatedly it's not right to be taken at all
• Utilitarian principle

  Take actions that produce high value
• Risk aversion principle

  Take actions with min potential costs
• "No Free Lunch" rule

  Everything is owned unless stated otherwise
• AMA

  American medical association
• ABA

  American bar association
• ACM

  Association of computing machinery
• Real world ethical dilemmas

  Where different interests conflict
• Cookie

  Small text files on computer hard drive when user visits a website, it identifies browsers and tracks visits
• Web beacons

  Tiny graphics in email and web pages, it monitors who reads the emails or visits the site
• Spyware

  Secretly installed, it can capture data and show ads
• Google's behavioral targeting

  analyze online behavior for personalized ads
• Opt-in

  Users must give consent to subscribe
• Opt-out

  Users are automatically subscribed and must take action to remove
• Private browsing

  Prevents the storage of browsing history
• Don't track option

  Inform web to not track browsing behavior
• Trade secret

  intellectual work
• Copyright

  Protecting intellectuals property from being copied for plus 70 years
• Patents

  Grant inventors an exclusive monopoly on their idea for 20 years
• Ways intellectual property is protected

  Trade secret

  Copyright

  Patents

  Trademark
• Candidate Ethical Principles


  Golden rule

  Kant's categorical imperative

  Slippery slope rule

  Utilitarian principle

  Risk aversion principle

  "No Free Lunch" rule
• RSI

  Repetitive stress injury
• CTS

  Carpal tunnel syndrome
• CVS

  Computer vision syndrome