...someone’s personal network directory. 1) Access to records containing personal information 2) Information relating to records kept by record-keeper If you have high clearance and can access to your colleagues details, it is not allowed to do it without their consent or it will be consider as Disclosure of confidential personal information without consent. ANSWER 2: Normally anyone can call, will get weekly invasion of privacy. Example: People selling unwanted things like soap and vacations, or people selling harmful things like ant viruses that collect your data. When on DNC register, a much smaller amount of people can call, which helps protect privacy. Also, the people calling may be much more preferable to the person that is being called. Example: Charities collecting for a good cause or surveys that help improve the government. Even though the DNC could be improved further by restricting all unsolicited calls, it is still an improvement over being exposed to all callers. ANSWER 3: Yes doing such an action falls beyond IT and work ethics, company pays money per licence, and that license is only for the use of staff working in that organization. Also Software Company developed that software so they can make money by selling those software applications, if they have been given out for free or sold on fewer prices then company have been selling, that means Software Company is losing money....
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...Dania Afif El-Achmar The Rights and Ethics of Employees with Respect to Privacy at Work Widespread use of electronic communications media such as e-mail and information resources such as the Internet has prompted many employers to engage in electronic surveillance of their employees. Employers are monitoring—and even recording—employees’ personal phone calls, e-mails, and workplace conversations. Video cameras are trained on employee parking lots, break areas, and other parts of the workplace. Today’s employers have the legal right to conduct search and seizure of employees’ personal property; monitor the employee’s telephone calls, workplace computer, Internet, fax use, and e-mail; perform employee drug testing; and conduct investigation and surveillance of employees. Electronic Surveillance The ethics of employee surveillance are problematic, because both the company and the employee have rights, and these rights can conflict. The employee owes the company a solid day’s work and protection of proprietary property and knowledge, but the employee can claim rights such as privacy, compensation for injury, freedom from harassment, and a living wage. Employees are often not aware of the fact that their e-mails are being read by their employers. Moreover, most employees are unaware of the extent to which their employers can and actually do monitor what they do. Studies indicated that worldwide, approximately 27 million employees workforce, are under continuous Internet or e-mail use...
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...BIOMETRICS (IN TERM TO ETHIC AND PRIVACY ISSUES) IFSM201 Section 4035 Semester 1302 DUE DATE 02/03/2013 Introduction Biometrics is the science and technology of measuring and analyzing biological data. In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies that measure and analyzes human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. Authentication by biometric verification is becoming increasingly common in public security systems, cooperate, consumer electronic and point of sale application. In addition to security, the driving force behind biometric verification has been convenience. (Rouse, 2008) In the recent years, civil liberty organization has argued that the collection of biometric data undermines the human rights for privacy and anonymity. (Shaikh, 2005) One of the most oldest and accurate type of biometric systems is fingerprint recognition; it is an extremely useful biometrics technology. Fingerprints have long been recognized as a primary and accurate identification method. It has been used for commercial, government and forensic purposes. Iris recognition system is highly nature technology and provides the most secure methods of authentication and identification thanks to the unique characteristics of the iris. This made the technology very useful in areas such as information security, access security, ATMs and airport security...
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...Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Professor Lynette Collins April 19, 2011 Electronic Surveillance of Employees 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become extremely important part of American culture. Lately, work place privacy has brought unwanted and costly litigations. To protect the company from those kinds of litigations, organizations are monitoring employee communications carefully. Although according to courts the private organizations have rights to monitor employee communications. In order to this `` Employee surveillance and email monitoring in the workplace present a number of sometimes conflicting issues regarding an employer’s need to protect its property and itself against liability and an employee’s right to privacy``(Adams, Scheuing & Feeley, 2000). Martin and Freeman (2003) also examined key arguments for and against employee monitoring, productivity, security, liability, privacy, and creativity. Privacy may be invaded in four ways. The first is unreasonable intrusion upon a person’s seclusion. Appropriation occurs when the use of a person’s name or likeness is used for economic benefit. Third is public disclosure of private facts. Finally, false light Most cases concerning invasion of privacy by employers involve intrusion upon seclusion’s is publicly characterizing or placing a person in a false light (Chieh and Kleiner, 2003) Most cases concerning Invasion of privacy by employers...
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...Case Study 1: Ethics and Local Governance Introduction to Information Technology July , 2013 In 2007 a Transformational Government mandate focused on customer budget reductions of 3 percent year to year increasing the emphasis on regionally shared services for the London Borough of Brent. The area is approximately 270,000 citizens with the London Borough of Brent information scattered across numerous departments without the ability to share any of the information across the enterprise. The decision to create a master client index that will clean up duplicate and fragmented data files, improve operational efficiencies, there are over 1.5 million records of the 2700,000 citizens that will be matched and linked from several different databases, providing a real time view of each customer’s data, this process will be very beneficial and achieve optimal operational efficiency. The two potential ethics issues associated with the consolidation of citizen records in the London Borough of Bren. First the privacy of the information of the citizens within those records may contain intimate details about their lives that should be kept private would probably be my biggest ethics issues concern. Some people enjoy their privacy and don’t want their information readily available for people to see without their consent. Some of information of the citizens records listed within the database could be very sensitive and personal information about someone’s disabilities, medical records, mental...
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...Privacy ‘The Limits of Privacy’ and ‘The Case for privacy’ are written by Amitai Etzioni and David D. Friedman respectively. Both of them have opposite views about privacy, which Etzioni states that less privacy is good for us and Friedman claims that more privacy makes the world a better place. In this paper, I will argue that Etzioni’s argument fails because privacy is really important for us to protect ourselves. I am going to explain in detail based on three different points in the next three paragraphs. First, in ‘The Limits of Privacy’, Etzioni argues that privacy is not important as many other goods. Based on his argument, he claims that “there are numerous values that trump or take precedence over privacy” (p.254) such as safety. However, I totally disagree his standpoint. Although safety also considers as a part of importance, it does not mean that safety can take priority over privacy consideration. Privacy does have significance effect for us to protect ourselves. Some people may think that it is worth to sacrifice their individual privacy in order to get freedom for safety. Once you give up your own privacy and allow anyone like governments to access to your information freely, your information is disclosed and you cannot get them back anymore. For example, after 9/11 attack in the United States, a lot of new measures about surveillance are introduced. The government can have authorities to wiretap, record or trace orders for email made by all Americans. These...
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...regulation in the United Kingdom. In current UK law there is no legislation that forbids publications from printing articles that can be considered as intrusive and invasion of an individual’s privacy. This however does not mean that there is no regulation governing publications. There is a strict code of practice that all the media outlets both print and broadcast have come to an agreement to adhere to. This code was set up by the Press Compliant Commission in order to regulate the industry. This commission is an independent entity that was set up in the early 1990s following the recommendations of a commission on press regulation that was chaired by Sir. David Calcutt. The commission’s core responsibility is to ensure that the press adheres to the agreed code of practice on sensitive topics such minors and privacy (Fourie 2002: 46). In case of any breach of the code of conduct, the commission will conduct an investigation and either uphold the complaint or dismiss it in its entirety. With the exception of incidents regarding inaccuracies (these are dealt with by the editor responsible) all other cases have to be adjudicated and published by the commission. This commission came to being ultimately because government wanted to come up with measures to ensure protection of individual’s privacy rights against the activities of various media houses. The commission that was set up to give recommendations on how to replace the Press council which was the regulatory body before. This...
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...Unprofessional Conduct? Jessica Jeffrey Strayer University Business Ethics BUS 309 Professor Nekia Hackworth August 23, 2015 Unprofessional Conduct? The definition of unprofessional is cited as follows: “not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession; at variance with or contrary to professional standards or ethics; not befitting members of a profession, as language, behavior, or conduct” (Dictionary.com, 2015). Hence, this paper will analyze the four (4) questions as outlined in the assignment overview and discuss them by using concepts learned in this course. Additionally, the writer of this paper will explain the rationale used for her responses. Question 1 Do you believe the Board of Education violated her right to privacy? The author of this paper does feel that the Board of Education violated Mrs. Pettit’s right to privacy. The reason for this belief has to do with the utilitarian concept to “always act to produce the greatest possible balance of good over bad for everyone affected by our actions” (Shaw, 2013). Mrs. Pettit, her husband, and the others who attended the function were engaging in this very concept. Additionally, this occurred in a private setting and the participants were consenting adults over the age of eighteen (18) and should be afforded a legal and moral right to privacy. However, the happiness enjoyed by these acts was eventually used against Mrs. Pettit as the consequences of her actions led to the revocation...
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...Sliben Legal 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Strayer University October --,2011 Introduction I am rather pleased that I was able to successfully complete assignment I, Electronic Surveillance of Employees paper which highlights the overall pros and cons as they relate to the privacy of an organization's most integral commodity, the employee. The work surveillance is closely scrutinized by both the employee's and employer's perspective; the most employee assert that they should be entitled to privacy within the workplace while the employer offers the statement that they are indeed allowed to monitor all activities as they relate to the employee during the course of the workday while on the organizations premises; unfortunately the employer as it relates to the perspective tends to ring true. Now that we are all more cognizant of surveillance from both the employee as well as employer perspectives, we are now prepared to present our findings in a most effective manner. It is indeed an organization's desire to meet both their short and long term goals of ultimately surpassing existing performance and productivity standards while not compromising business operations along the way. Results of Findings Input 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. The area where an employee can and should expect to have the most privacy and solitude during the ...
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...“Inappropriate genetic testing can threaten individual autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality and lead to various types of genetic stigmatization and discrimination without any commensurate benefit for the individual tested,” (Brandt; Rauf, 2004). When Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) tested their employees without the employees knowing about it, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stepped in and cited that BNSF violated the employee’s equal rights through discrimination and the employee’s rights of privacy. These actions “raise serious concerns that such testing could pose a significant threat to workers' privacy, autonomy, and dignity. Thus, defining the ethically, legally, and socially appropriate and inappropriate uses of genetic testing in the workplace,” (DEHS, 2001) presents a major breach in a workers legal right to privacy. One hundred and twenty-five BNSF employees filed on-the-job injury claims citing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) for “years of repetitive activity such as wielding a wrench or operating a jackhammer,” (Lehrer, 2001; UNK, 2001). While investigating these claims, BNSF medical doctor required further testing of 20 employees (UNK, 2001). The medical company pulled blood for genetic testing without telling the BNSF employees what kind of test that they were performing, (Mahanna, 2001; Schafer, 2001; BNSF, 2002; Lehrer, 2001; Lewin, 2002). One employee refused to submit to the tests and BNSF threatened to terminate his job (Lewin;...
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...Internet Employment Practices Pre-Employment Physical and Drug Screen Pre-Employment Background Checks Conclusion References Business - Management Learning Team Assignment: Employee Handbook Assignment Prepare a 1,500-to 2,050-word document in which you create a representation of actual sections ( privacy, employee testing, ethics and performance evaluation s) of an employee handbook (private sector). Note. The handbook must be original student content and work. In addition to describing the company to which the employee handbook applies, also address the issues of privacy, employee testing, ethics and performance evaluation s in the global workplace. This assignment must include , but is not limited to, the following questions in drafting your handbook sections: What privacy rights issues must be addressed? What must the company’s position be in response to privacy rights issues? How do your privacy protections limit the company’s liability? How do your privacy protections enhance employee motivation and productivity? What are some ethical considerations involved in the design of the privacy section? What legal considerations must be made as you design your employee testing policies, particularly as you consider the different specific testing that might be done? What ethical considerations must be made relative to your testing policies? What legal considerations must be made as...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE INFORMATION AGE IN WHICH YOU LIVE: CHANGING THE FACE OF BUSINESS JUMP TO THE SUPPORT YOU WANT • Lecture Outline • Modules, Projects, and Data Files • Slide Reviews • Closing Cases • Short-Answer Questions • Assignments and Exercises • Discussion Questions • Industry & Global Perspectives • Additional Assignments and Exercises CONTACT INFORMATION: Stephen Haag (shaag@du.edu) STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Define management information systems (MIS) and describe the three important organizational resources within it – people, information, and information technology. 2. Describe how to use break-even analysis to assess the financial impact of information technology. 3. Describe how to use Porter’s Five Forces Model to evaluate the relative attractiveness of and competitive pressures in an industry. 4. Compare and contrast Porter’s three generic strategies and the run-grow-transform framework as approaches to the development of business strategy. CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter serves two primary purposes. First the chapter introduces your students to the broad notion of management information systems within an organization and the three key resources on which MIS focuses – people, information, and information technology. Second, the chapter jumps right into the process of appropriately selecting which technologies to use based on the industry in which your organization operates, the identified...
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...attention must be given to ethics and possible government regulations. Our analysis has factored in Kool Kid Inc.’s desire for an authentic brand and superior customer experience with Raydar’s current capabilities and future goals. We understood the strategic and ethical concerns to be as followed: • Ethics. o Internal and external individuals may question the ethics of tagging children’s clothing • Government Regulation. o Possible congressional bills restricting the use of RFID in clothing and requiring full disclosure with the use of RFID may be passed. • Reputation. o Possible tarnishing of the Raydar brand as a result of consumer privacy concerns may occur. • Financial Cost. o Research and development costs. o The cost to profits if a strong competitor enters the market. Value Control Much attention must be given to the protection of the customer and his/her private information. The following areas must be addressed to help ensure the success of the RFID tagging project, they are: • The database of customer private information. We suggest Raydar collects and holds the customer information and licenses it to KK. Raydar will have complete control over the information and can make certain it is handled properly. • The educating of KK’s customer base about RFID and their information. We suggest KK’s customer base is fully educated on the privacy policy regarding their...
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...reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy in the workplace has been an ongoing and perhaps a continued effort for all companies in an effort to protect viable information. Employees as well are concerned if employers of having too much control or access to their privacy. The manner in which certain privacy can be reasonably expected lies mainly within your human resource department. A function within the HR department is to maintain and manage employee information up to and including private information. A critical trait as an HR professional is to maintain a high sense of confidentiality. Companies have begun to include confidentiality agreements upon hire as a term of pre employment or non-compete which is prevalent in the sales industry. Within your human resources department you have access through what is a database that holds a plethora of employee information typically known as an HRIS system. Employee information related to anything medical is protected by HIPPA law which includes your HR department without your written consent. The HR department is the safest place or more reasonably expected to have privacy in the workplace. 2. In the office workplace there are typically two types of workspaces, an open area, in which there are several desks and where conversations can be overhead, or an enclosed office, in which—when the door is closed—conversations cannot be heard and where one would expect virtually total privacy. Explain whether it makes...
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...Administrative Ethics As a healthcare administrator, protecting the privacy of patient information is a primary concern, and many organizations have taken additional security measure to protect their patients. With the advancement of technology follows the growing concern of ethical and legal dilemmas. There are several important issues, which are involved when it comes to an individual’s personal information and you add technology. With the Affordable Care Act just around the corner and millions of Americans scrabble to meet the deadlines to gain healthcare, raises the question are Americans information protect on the HealthCare.gov website. Americans are concerned with privacy issues and the government possible using their information. We will review an article related to privacy concerns over personal information submitted on the Obama Care website, determine what issues and the impact on population it affect most. We will explore the arguments and the facts that are used in the article to support the proposed solution. We will examine the ethical and legal issues reported, and explain the managerial responsible related to administrative issue. In addition, we will identify any proposed solutions to the allocations. As the world of technology grows with everything we need at our fingertips, from our tables, smart-phones, and laptops this leave us open to the arising challenges of legal and ethical issues. Technology has eased its way as becoming a part of American...
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