Ethics and Privacy

• Ethics - refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices that guide their behavior.
• Utilitarian Approach - that an ethical action is the one that provides the most good good or does the least harm.
• Right Approach - maintains that an ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of the affected parties.
• Fairness Approach - posits that ethical actions treat all human beings equally, or, if unequally, then fairly, based on some defensible standard.
• Common Good Approach - highlights the interlocking relationships that underlies all societies.
• Code of Ethics - a collection of principles intended to guide decision making by members of the organization.
• Responsibility - means that you accept the consequences of your decisions and actions.
• Accountability - refers to determining who is responsible for actions that were taken.
• Liability - a legal concept that gives individuals the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations, or systems.
• Privacy issues - involve collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals.
• Accuracy issues - involve the authenticity, fidelity, and correctness of information that is collected and processed.
• Property issues - involve the ownership and value of information.
• Accessibility issues - revolve around who should have access to information and whether they should pay a fee for this access.
• Privacy - it is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions.
• Information Privacy - it is the right to determine when, and to what extent, information about you can be gathered and/or communicated to others.
• Profiling - the process of forming a digital dossier.
• Digital Dossier - it is an electronic profile of you and your habits.
• Privacy policies or privacy codes - are an organization's guidelines for protecting the privacy of its customers, clients, and employees.
• Opt-out Model - it is an informed consent that permits the company to collect personal information until the customer specifically requests that the data cannot be collected.
• Opt-in Model - it is an informed consent model, which prohibits an organization from collecting any personal information unless the customer specifically authorizes it.
• Electronic Surveillance - Tracking people's activities with the aid of computers.
• Platform for Privacy Preferences - a protocol that automatically communicates privacy policies between an electronic commerce Website and visitors to that site