The advances made in information technologies are causing an increasing number of ethical problems. The power used to processing computers doubles about every two years. Organizations are more dependent than ever before on their information systems. The Ethical problems arising from the appropriate use of customer information, personal privacy, and the protection of intellectual property have lead to increased laws to regulate the way data is collected. There are also privacy issues involved collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals.
Privacy is the right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusions. Information privacy is the right to determine when, and to what extent, information about yourself can be gathered and/or communicated to others. 1 Court decisions in many countries have followed two rules fairly closely: The right of privacy is not absolute. Privacy must be balanced against the needs of society. The public’s right to know supersedes the individual’s right of privacy. These two rules show why it is difficult in some cases to determine and enforce privacy regulations.
National Do Not Call Registry
The protection of privacy brought about the need for the National Do Not Call Registry. This registry is intended to give consumers an opportunity to limit the telemarketing calls they receive. The registry was set to begin in 2003, but a court challenge delayed its implementation until 2004. The law does provide exceptions to a blanket do-not-call ruling.2 Many victims of fraudulent calls and Do-Not-Call violations have extensively documented ongoing and widespread inaction and lack of enforcement by the FTC. In May 2014 Sprint Corporation was fined a record $7.5 million for failing to honor requests by consumers to opt out of receiving telemarketing calls and texts. The fine followed an investigation that had begun in 2012. "We expect companies to respect the privacy of consumers who have opted out of marketing calls," Travis LeBlanc, acting chief of the FCC's enforcement bureau said at the time. "When a consumer tells a company to stop calling or testing with promotional pitches, that request must be honored. Today's settlement leaves no question that protecting consumer privacy is a top enforcement priority."
Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
The accessibility issues revolve around who should have access to information and whether they should have to pay for this access created ethical concerns with the advances in IT. These accessibility problems can be linked to formation of the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which promotes the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information in the files of consumer reporting agencies. There are many types of consumer reporting agencies, including credit bureaus and specialty agencies (such as agencies that sell information about check writing histories, medical records, and rental history records). 3
We can see many instances where personal information collected by these agencies was used unethically by others to assume the identities of the consumers. If you are a victim of identity theft or are on active duty with the military, you have more rights under the FCRA. You may seek damages from violators. If a consumer reporting agency, or, in some cases, a user of consumer reports or a furnisher of information to a consumer reporting agency violates the FCRA, you may be able to sue in state or federal court. 4
These ongoing ethical issues that will need to be regulated due to the continued advances in information technology. New laws will be create or amendments to current law governing the collection and distribution of the personal data being collected. References

1 Retrieved from www.coursehero.com; March 3, 2014
2 Retrieved from www.ismellmoney.com; September 7, 2009
3 Retrieved from www.corruptekamer.nl; October 22, 2013
4 Retrieved from www.ci.watauga.tx.us; February 8, 2014