PRIVACY

• is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm.

PRIVACY PROTECTION AND THE LAW

• Privacy law is the area of law concerned with the protection and preservation of the privacy rights of individuals. Increasingly, governments and other public as well as private organizations collect vast amounts of personal information about individuals for a variety of purposes. The law of privacy regulates the type of information which may be collected and how this information may be used.

MIDTERM QUIZ

• Your friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative systems at your college. The worm is "harmless" and will simply cause a message - "Let's party!" - to be displayed on all workstations on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. By 4 p. m., the virus will erase itself and destroy all evidence of its presence. What would you say or do?

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As his/her friend, I might force him/her to abort what his/her planing to do. He might suffer or punished by the administration or being kicked out from school.
If that virus his/her trying to make is "harmless" we shouldn't tolerate or practice students for making one of any viruses even if it is harmless.

• You are the CEO of a three-year-old software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenues in excess of 500 million dollars. You've just received a recommendation from the manager of software development to hire three notorious crackers to probe your software products in an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone can find a vulnerability in your software, they can. This will give your firm a head start on developing parches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You're not sure, and feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/cracker community. What would you do?

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I would say "NO". Hackers are one of the biggest enemy of all software companies or even other companies that are usually using computers for their websites. We shouldn't trust anyone to go deeply in the heart of our company to avoid unfavorable publicity or for them to know our business secrets nor security.

Are IT Workers Professional or Not?Yes or No?

Absolutely Yes. IT workers are highly professional in terms of their skills, determination and well updated in technology.
In computers there are many changes as time goes by. Every companies or establishments are needing more IT graduates such as in UK, US and other more places to handle their computers very well and has the key to success.

An effective IT worker needs a variety of skills, including technical knowledge about information technology, business knowledge and experience, and organizational and communications skills. The mix of skills needed varies greatly from one IT occupation to another.
Professional IT workers are not that far to those who are Engineers or Doctors.

First assignment (Prelim)

Opening a business Company

Ethical Decision Making

1.To get facts. Gather all the information about the business you're planning for.

2.Identify stakeholders and their positions. As stakeholders grasp the vision of the language program, they can make additional contacts through their own networking. You will probably need to do considerable networking with stakeholders before they are ready to engage in their own networking on behalf of the project.

3.Consider the consequences of your decisions. You must face all the consequences of your decisions for you to learn and make your business more effective.

4.To weigh various guidelines and principles. In a business you must deal with guidelines and principles to prevent any destruction or anomalies.

5.You must develop and evaluate options. In business, you must develop options to help you manage your business easily.

6.Review your decisions. To avoid any mistakes, you must review your decisions before finalization.

7.Evaluate the result of your decisions. Check the result of your decisions or identify if there's any bad effect at all.

Philosophical Theory in Ethical Decision Making

1.The virtue ethics approach. Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach which emphasizes duties or rules or that which emphasizes the consequences of actions. Using this approach, you can discipline yourself and even others.

2.Utilitarian approach. If corporations took the Utilitarian approach to their business practices the great good could be best served.

3.Fairness approach. Management rules and performance requirements should be fair for everyone. Make your employee rules and performance requirements fair and equitable. Rewarding favored employees with unearned bonuses, salary, and perks costs the company money in lost sales and lowered staff morale. Having unfair standards is bad business as it adversely affects the business bottom line.

4.Common-good approach. Management has a common approach in any ways. For the company to be able to achieve success and to be famous.

ESTABLISHING BUSINESS CORPORATION

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING

1.To get facts.Get as much information on your own as you can. Do the research yourself it will payoff in the long run, as this will help you to be able to ask the right questions and potentially mitigate any misunderstandings and lessen your cost. Check with your local chamber of commerce, or county clerk, they can point you in the direction of resources to guide you to the establishment of your corporation. Most local public libraries will have books on establishing a corporation in your state.

2.Identify stakeholders and their positions.