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ITETHIC READER

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BOOK REVIEW

HANDBOOK OF

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Chapter 1 “Foundation of Information Ethics”By Luciano FloridiBook: The Handbook of Information and Computer EthicsLibrary Reference: Not ApplicableAmazon:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738204315/thesearlsgroup Quote:

“An information ethics should be able to address and solve the ethical challenges arising in the infosphere.”

I chose this quote because this is very true. One should not only focus creating softwares thatcan help businesses but also knowing moral ethics as an IT person. It is not just by doing what we mustdo because of we are IT developer, programmer and etc, but also following the ten commandments ofethics. We have an information ethics because this is important in our lives not to harm other people.There are issues in technologies that are growing and must be solve in order not to grow much.Learning Expectation:I expect that I will learn what are the importances of Ethics in the world of InformationTechnology. I want to know if it will really impact too much to the people that can eventually harm them. Iwant to know issues in ethics especially where there are numerous of information in the web. As an ITperson, I want also to know what my duties are, as also a good citizen in this society. I want to make thismy own experience or practice so that if by chance I would faced like this situation in the future, I wouldbe able to solve it with what I have learned in this handbook of information and computer ethics.Review:We call nowadays as the information society because of the technologies that helps differentsectors such as government, businesses, hospitals, schools and etc. We tend to used what technologiescan give us. With that, we are also aware of what some ethical problems that it could do. Some peopleused technologies to help this sectors but the problem is some already forgot that there are also ethics inthe world of Information technology.This chapter is about Information Ethics. For some people, they mean different meaning towardsit because of different professions. Some professional people only knows ethics in their line such asmedical ethics. They actually do not know information ethics or if it exist. They only care what they aredoing which is not bad if they are also complying to their ethics. Ethics are important in different lives ofpeople that’s why we have many ethics such as medical ethics, business ethics, moral ethics that teachesus also to be professional in our desired profession. This chapter also says that it is not surprising and Iagreed with it because it does not mean that if you are professional, you also know what is right andwrong in your line of profession.There are three words mentioned in this chapter namely info-resource, info-target and info-product. Info-resource means where he get his information. Info-target means how it affect theenvironment. Info-product means the generation of the information he got from his resources. This threeis called the Resource Product Target model. This RPT model explains why technology has its own ethicsor moral implications to people the same with other fields of study.