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Lecture Professional Practices in IT: Lecture 8 - Saqib Iqbal

Lecture 8 - Ethical and social issues in information systems (continued). After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: What ethical, social, and political issues are raised by information systems? What specific principles for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions? Why do contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property? How have information systems affected everyday life? | Lecture 8 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS (continued) © Prentice Hall 2011 What ethical, social, and political issues are raised by information systems? What specific principles for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions? Why do contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property? How have information systems affected everyday life? Learning Objectives © Prentice Hall 2011 Ask students what their first impressions are after seeing these objectives. Can they point to examples of how information systems have affected everyday life? If not, explain that they will be surprised to learn that information systems affect almost every area of daily life. Can students explain how the Internet poses challenges to privacy and intellectual property? Ask them how Google, Facebook, and peer-to-peer networks are related to these issues. What about breakdowns in important networks and software at banks, air traffic control, and other business firms? Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems NONOBVIOUS RELATIONSHIP AWARENESS (NORA) NORA technology can take information about people from disparate sources and find obscure, nonobvious relationships. It might discover, for example, that an applicant for a job at a casino shares a telephone number with a known criminal and issue an alert to the hiring manager. FIGURE 4-2 © Prentice Hall 2011 Explain that NORA is used by both the government and the private sector for its profiling capabilities. Ask students to provide potential examples of NORA (other than the one mentioned in the caption) for both governmental and business purposes. One such example might be an airline identifying potential terrorists attempting to board a plane. Another might government identifying potential terrorists by monitoring phone calls. Basic concepts for ethical analysis Responsibility: Accepting the potential | Lecture 8 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS (continued) © Prentice Hall 2011 What ethical, social, and political issues are raised by information systems? What specific principles for conduct can be used to guide ethical decisions? Why do contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property? How have information systems affected everyday life? Learning Objectives © Prentice Hall 2011 Ask students what their first impressions are after seeing these objectives. Can they point to examples of how information systems have affected everyday life? If not, explain that they will be surprised to learn that information systems affect almost every area of daily life. Can students explain how the Internet poses challenges to privacy and intellectual property? Ask them how Google, Facebook, and peer-to-peer networks are related to these issues. What about breakdowns in important .