what do you think is the worst ethical problem in information technology?
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What do you think is the dumbest, least informative question on yahoo Answers??
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The biggest threat to humanity is inhumanity. But picking from your list I'd say viruses top the list of recurring real threats. For the more theoretical ones I'd say most catastrophic: 1) invasion by unfriendly aliens 2) meteors 3) advanced AI. Most likely: 1) advanced AI 2) meteors 3) alien invasion. Not too concerned about warfare, we've had a long history of dealing with that. Also not too concerned about climate change, we can come up with technology to deal with that.
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Let me tell you one (among many) thing that I hate about the corporate world: The Cube Farms.\n\nThey'll tell you the cube is the ideal work space where you get you own semi-privacy while being able to interact with your co-workers.\n\nIn reality, they just throw you in a box to condition your thinking and behaviour, to kill your creativity, and give themselves a better sense of control over individuals.
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Bad: \n* Never following up with people's questions\n* Losing payroll information\n* Not caring\n* Mispaying people\n* Losing applications\n* Losing forms\n* Dancing around issues\n* Abuse priviliges \n* take exceptionally long lunches and breaks\n\nGood: \nThe opposite of bad
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I think it is a contradtiction.\n\nLike military intelligence\n\nor \n\nbusiness ethics.
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With every new technology comes good and bad.\n\nFor instance, I'm a trainer for a living, so having mobile technology such as a laptop with wireless and remote access is great for my job, but I'm always at work now. Even my RDO's are spent putting out spot fires before they become raging inferno's to deal with on my return.\n\nHowever that being said, they probably wouldn't be raging inferno's, it's just a perception oh no something to do, deal with it. \n\nThat being said, Imagine if you had to fax all your letters, or send via snail mail. Data transfer and communication is a great asset that has been bought to us by technology. \n\nWe can send an email off and mark it as waiting on someone else on our to do lists instantly. \n\nWe can prepare macros and programs to remove mundane and pointless repetitive labour from our lives. Mail merges mean one letter, one list of names and addresses, two clicks, and bang, merged and printed.\n\nDepending on the Job technology can be a nuisance, handy, or an outright neccessity as some industries have grown to depend heavily on it.\n\nThe greatest benefit by far of computers is Databases.\n\nYou can either file your clients in a filing cabinet, search for them, add to them, re-file them. Or you can build a database, build a front end for that database, and once down, that time and money pays for itself, as repetitive and manual mundane filing is dead.\n\nI've worked with databases with millions and millions of entries, and I could not even imagine manually filing such an incredible amount of hard copy information.\n\nThe one neccessity for implementing technology as such, is a disaster recovery plan. You MUST be able to recover from a crash before becoming dependant on technology.
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If you are being asked to do something that you believe to be morally wrong.
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I have two favorites:\n1.I switched the "N" key and the "M" key on a co-worker's computer.  He couldn't get logged on and kept trying until the system locked him out. I said maybe you just can't type. He said "I CAN type!" He was really mad. When he left his office I switched the keys back. He never did find out:)\n2.someone taped a opened can (empty but still had the juice)of sardines under a desk. After a few days it smelled really bad! "Roger" (the desk owner) came to change his shoes every morning;  he would bend down to get his shoes from under his desk and say "wow, my feet really stink". I would try not to smile and pass him a bottle of sneaker freshener. This went on for a week or two. He almost made a doctor's appointment because he really thought his feet had something wrong that made them stink. Man, that was funny!
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A computer cannot think like a human being. That is the single most biggest limitation.\n\nHope that was quick enough.
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Ethics behavior in all matters..
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I work in IT and we support all the pc's, phones, printers etc.  Without us, companies would be at a standstill. Not to mention most users are pretty useless trying to do even the most mundane tasks! Secretary's that don't know how to use Word and Excel. People don't know how to clear printer jams,etc! It's amazing how tech limited some people are~A note to Bess, Rebooting clears a myriad of problems. More than you can imagine.  But it depends on the problem. We don't say that for EVERYTHING!
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I think you will find http://www.enterweb.org/ethics.htm provides a great place to start at least.\n\nAll the best!\n\nCheers\nAlister\nhttp://www.marketscience.com.au
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In my personal opinion:\n\n#1 : Human Rights - even though the world has the Universal Declaration on Human Rights which was ratified by the UN and members of the UN are supposed to uphold these, it seems these basic human rights are continually violated\n\n#2 : Poverty - it's such a shame that in our world today, with all our great technology and know-how, that we still cannot seem to find a way to bridge the large gap between extreme poverty in parts of the world and the extreme rich in other parts (and sometimes the two coexist in the same nation!)\n\n#3 : Energy - our world today uses a lot of energy, unfortunately we haven't invested as much money and time to develop the technologies to advance the ways in which we produce energy (although we are steadily changing). I'll admit that when I learned how a car operates I was very surprised and disappointed...I realized that with all our advancing computer technology, etc, that the car is just one of the many machines that still operates in an early industrial style fashion. Sure we have lots of great gadgets inside the car and the designs have changed, but it still works and runs off of very late 19th century ideas. We should invest more time, money, and technology to advancing this and how we produce energy. It has began, but it is moving slower than the demand. \n\n#4 : Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, & Intersexed Rights - being gay myself I actually consider these human rights, but since some folks seperate these I thought I'd add them seperately for those that do. I once read "a nation is judged not by how well it takes care of its majority, but in how well it defends, protects, and cares for all its minorities." Most people forget about the basic humanity that is involved when talking about 'rights', especially when talking about gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, and intersexed people. Somehow those asking for the 'rights' aren't seen as 'people' or even 'human' sometimes and it's ashame that we forget the humanity of this group of people.\n\n#5 : Health & Education - I think it is fundamental that we should not only educate people...especially educate people about their health...but that our world today should be able to provide very good health care for its population...but we can't expect better health for the world's population when we can't even take care of simple things like human rights (which require us to actually see the humanity in everyone), poverty (which again it's easy to dismiss if you fail to see the humanity of the people in it), and energy issues (because most of the great improvements in health care and schools come from technology..technology that takes energy to function and operate, let alone the facilities, vehicles, etc will need energy, too).  \n\nThat's my top 5 of the most pressing issues of concern! Get these things going and the world population would probably be much more content (and since we'd be honoring and recognizing each other's humanity then diplomacy might actually work better, too). There is an old saying I was told once about why in ancient times many societies invested so much in health, education, justice systems, and entertainment...because that makes people happy and happy people don't riot, don't overthrow their governments, don't rebel. I think modern governments should try to remember that (corporations are now starting to take notice of this...as has been reported many times recently about these corporations having health clubs, schools, daycares, entertainment centers, medical facilities, etc all built into or within their business complex..and they have happier employees who then show up for work and have fewer absenses and less turnover...and even greater profits).
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Here are the top 10 most important technology issues for 2006, along with their definitions. New items for this year are noted as such. \n \n1. Information Security: The hardware, software, processes, and procedures in place to protect information systems from internal and external threats.  It includes routers, perimeter firewalls, IP strategy, intrusion detection and reporting, content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, password management, vulnerability assessment, patch management, personal firewalls, wireless security strategies, data encryption, locked facilities and user education.\n \n2. Assurance and Compliance Applications (e.g., SOX 404, ERM): Collaboration and compliance tools that enable various stakeholders to monitor, document, assess, test and report on compliance with specified controls. \n \n3. Disaster and Business Continuity Planning: The development, monitoring, and updating of the process by which organizations plan for continuity of their business in the event of a loss of business information resources due to impairments such as theft, virus infestation, weather damage, accidents, or other malicious destruction. This also includes business continuation and contingency planning.\n \n4. IT Governance: IT governance is a structure of relationships and processes to direct and control the enterprise in order to achieve the enterprise's goals by adding value, while still balancing risk versus return over IT and its processes. \n \n5. Privacy Management: Privacy encompasses the rights and obligations of individuals and organizations with respect to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information. As more information and processes are being converted to a digital format, this information must be protected from unauthorized users and from unauthorized usage by those with access to the data. This includes complying with local, state, national and international laws. \n\n6. Digital Identity and Authentication Technologies: A way to ensure users are who they say they are—that the user who attempts to perform functions in a system is in fact the user who is authorized to do so. This includes hardware and software solutions that enable the electronic verification of a user’s identity or a message’s validity, for example, digital certificates. This technology includes the use of bar codes, magnetic stripe, biometrics, tokens and access control for authentication, non-repudiation, and authorization.\n \n7. Wireless Technologies: Connectivity and transfer of data between devices via the airwaves, i.e. without physical connectivity. Wireless technologies include Bluetooth (PAN), infrared, WiFi (802.11 WLAN), Wi-Max (802.16), 2.5G & 3G (WWAN) and, satellite.\n \n8. Application and Data Integration: Using current and emerging technologies, including .NET, web-services, Java, XML (the foundation for XBRL)  and Ajax, to facilitate integration of data between heterogeneous applications. In its most basic format, XBRL focuses on the agreement to improve gathering, analyzing and sharing business reporting data. For example updating a field in one application and have it automatically synchronize with other applications. This allows organizations to select and seamlessly integrate “best of breed” applications.\n \n9. Paperless Digital Technologies: Document and content management includes the process of capturing, indexing, storing, retrieving, searching, and managing documents electronically including database management (PDF and other formats). Knowledge management then brings structure and control to this information, allowing organizations to harness the intellectual capital contained in the underlying data.\n \n10. Spyware Detection and Removal: Technology that detects and removes programs attempting to covertly gather and transmit confidential user information without his or her knowledge or permission. Spyware applications are typically bundled as a hidden component of freeware or sh
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There can be little ground for opposing financially sound ethical practices. Problems begin when ill concieved measures or restrictions are hurridly pushed through in the name of ehics without proper analysis of cost and benefits to the community, sometimes with ulterior motives.We all have a duty to protect our businesses against such attempts.
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There are certainly ethical issues with the advertising industry. It is by its very nature designed to subvert people's will and cause them to act in the interest of the advertiser and not in their own interest.\n\nModern advertising techniques were created in Nazi Germany in Hitler's propaganda ministry. It included cinematic techniques such as those developed by Leni Reifenstahl's 'The Power of The Will', which lionized Hitler. The Nazi propaganda worked so well that in 1945, the Americans took their research and put it to work on Madison Avenue. In the same way they also took Nazi rocket technology and scientists, and used them to go to the Moon.\n\nThe point of designing a good effective advertisement is to direct the viewer's attention, arguably to misdirect it. While I enjoyed creating advertising for clients who made good products, you can't realistically make a living restricting your clientele. Eventually, I moved into the technical end of printing where I was happier.
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I don't think it has corrupted the human race. I think its just allowed access for people to do things more easily. The human race has been corrupted since Adam & Eve took of the fruit of Good and Evil. Technology is just another path in which people allow themselves to sin. Technology is a good thing and every good gift comes from God. But its when it is used in a immoral way that is corrupt, and that's because of personal choice, not technology itself.