Outline for Today
• Chapter 3: Ethics and Privacy
• Tech Guide: Protecting Information Assets
REMINDER:
Project 1 due tonight before midnight!

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A Reminder on Cheating
COPYING OF OTHERS’ FILES
JOINTLY WORKING ON THE SAME BASE FILES (meaning two or more students work on the same assignment on the same machine at the same time)
PROVIDING YOUR FILES TO OTHER STUDENTS
Handing in the work of others
In addition, hands-on open book assignments permit the use of books and written notes, but not electronic files or the use of student computers.
Cheating of any kind shall result in a grade of zero (0) on the test, assignment, project or quiz in question with a minimum deduction of ONE LETTER GRADE for the class, and a note to the Office of the Dean of Students. The second instance of cheating will result in the grade of an F for the class.

Chapter Opening Case
Data
Broker
Marketers
Internet
Consumer s http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/

Another Case

Questions about Cases
Is this legal?
Who is acting unethical?

Chapter 3 - Ethics
How do you define ethics?
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3.1 Ethical Issues - Standards
Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices that guide their behavior
Guidelines/Approaches

General Framework for Ethics
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Recognize an ethical issue
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Get the facts
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Evaluate alternative actions
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Make a decision and test it
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Act and reflect on the outcome of your decision

Ethics in the Corporate Environment
Code of ethics / conduct
 Microsoft
 Google
Fundamental tenets of ethics
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Unethical vs. Illegal
Is everything that is unethical also illegal?
 Enron
 World Com
 Subprime Mortgages
 Other Examples

Ethics and Information Technology
Ethical use of information and information technology
Should organizations:
• monitor employees?
• sell customer info?
• audit employee computers?
(unauthorized software or content)

Ethics and Information Technology
This can also apply to messaging at companies.

Advice for Organization Use
1. Only use company computer for business related work
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Don’t send emails you wouldn’t want your parents to see
3. Limit who you give work email to

Ethics and Information Technology
Four categories of ethical issues involving
IT applications :
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How much privacy do we have left?
1) We Still Have a high level of privacy
2) We are beginning to have less privacy
3) Privacy? What’s that?

Privacy
Court decisions have followed two rules:

Ex. Google and User Data http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507441/the-us-governments-growing-appetite-for-google-users-data/

Ex. Mobile Device Location

Threats to Privacy
 Data aggregators, digital dossiers, and profiling
 Electronic Surveillance
 Personal Information in Databases
 Information on Internet Bulletin Boards,
Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites

Data Aggregators, Digital Dossiers, and Profiling
© Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

Electronic Surveillance
What are employee rights against surveillance?
© Ilin Sergey/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

Electronic Surveillance
A Face in the crowd:
Say goodbye to anonymity

Personal Information in Databases
Banks
Utility companies
Government agencies
Credit reporting agencies
© Nicolas Nadjar/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

Information on Internet Bulletin Boards,
Newsgroups, and Social Networking Sites
© Marina Bordjieva/Age Fotostock America, Inc.

Social Networking Sites Can
Cause You Problems
Anyone can post derogatory information about you anonymously .
(See this Washington Post article .)
You can also hurt yourself, as this article shows.

What Can You Do?
First, be careful what information you post on social networking sites.
Second, a company, ReputationDefender, says it can remove derogatory information from the
Web.

Protecting Privacy
Privacy Codes and Policies
 Ex . Facebook , Apple
Opt-out Model vs. Opt-in Model

Information Assets
What is meant when we say information assets?

Behavioral Actions
 Protect SSN#
 Secure credit cards
 Physical
 Virtual
 Debit Cards vs. Credit Cards
 Proactive Protection

Identity Theft
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Dumpster Diving
Skimming
Phishing
Changing your address
Old-Fashioned Stealing
Pretexting
Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft2012/

Computer-Based Actions
 Know what sites have been visited
 Infected Computers
 Malware Infections
 Anti-Virus
( http://www.uncw.edu/ITSD/help/antivirus.html
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 Security suite ( ZoneAlarm )
 Antispyware ( Ad-Aware )

Computer-Based Actions
 Information in SNS
 Manage Patches
 Browser and Operating Systems

Portable Devices and Information
 Data Encryption
 Password Protect
 Locating Devices
 Prey Project
 Find my iPhone
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Where’s My Droid http://thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com/