The practitioner from within: Revisiting the virtues – Frances S. Grodzinsky

Virtue ethics offers character forming theory that has been more successful with my students than the action guiding theories of computer ethic texts. The focus is on being rather than doing it presents a good heuristic or approach to the problem of moral agency. Virtue ethics offers a way of teaching self reflection through. It [...]

Ethical issues in business computing – Duncan Langford

When we hear the word business computing the thing that comes in our mind is the expenses use in the business. But according to Duncan Langford it means that it is by no means straightforward. The business computing device system is now using computers not like before it is all manual once you have lost [...]

Subsumption Ethics – David H. Gleason

Subsumption ethics is the process by which decisions become incorporated into the operation of information technology systems, and subsequentially forgotten. Subsumption in general is the process of building larger components from smaller ones. The greek word ethos, from which ethics can be translated as habit. Habit in general is a subsumption process. According to Aristotle [...]

No, PAPA: Why incomplete code of ethics are worse than none at all – N. Ben Fairweather

The problem with PAPA’s formulation is the question of whether technology for use in weapons systems ought to be developed. This is an ethical issue of the information age. The information age puts new emphasis on some parts of many older moral questions. The moral issues surrounding the development of weaponry are thus a few [...]

Software engineering code of ethics: approved – Don Gotterbarn, Keith Miller, Simon Rogerson

Software engineering now has its own codes. The changes made in the version 3.0 and 5.2 are the eight principles were reordered to reflect the order in which software professionals should consider their ethical obligations. Version 3.0 was for the principle of the product and the version 5.2 was for the principle of the public. [...]

Chapter 6 Ethical considerations for the information professions – Elizabeth A. Buchanan

Ethics is defined as the philosophical study of moral behavior, of moral decision making. The difference between morality and ethics is morality is the sense of conscience and right and wrong that we derive from upbringing while ethics is more structured and deliberative; Three major realms of ethics can be identified: Descriptive – focusing on [...]

Written on the body: Biometrics and identity – Irma van der Ploeg

Biometrics is the next big thing in information technology. That’s why when you combine biometric and information technology comes biometric technology. Biometric technology involves the collection with a sensoring device of digital representations of physical feature unique to an individual example of this are fingerprint, retina, veins of the hand and many more. Biometrics appears [...]

Double encryption of anonymized electronic of anonymized electronic data interchange

GP or general practitioner plays an important role in the health care system. Most of the patients have only one GP, who acts like a gateway for the health care system and who is informed that the specialist and hospital colleagues about their treatments. Since the PC system needs many cases, we prefer electronic data. [...]

The meaning of Anonymity in an information age – Helen Nissenbaum

The meaning of anonymity is conducting oneself without revealing one’s name. In my understanding about anonymity in information age is that when people sign up to social network sites they don’t give their real name but they use nickname or codenames so that people would not easily identify their identity. The power of information technology [...]

Web security and privacy: An American perspective – L. Jean Camp

There are confusions between security and privacy. Privacy requires security because without the ability to control access and distribution of information, privacy cannot be protected. But security is not privacy. Anonymity requires security and guarantees privacy but is neither. Security is often confused with privacy because security is concerned with confidentiality. Security has three goals: [...]