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5.1 Understanding ethical and social issues related to systems
• A model for thinking about ethical, social, and political issues
Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked
The relationship between ethical, social, and political issues in
an information society. The introduction of new information
technology has a ripple effect, raising new ethical, social, and
political issues that must be dealt with on the individual, social,
and political levels.
• Technical solutions
-P3P provides a standard for communicating a Web site’s
privacy policy to internet users and for comparing that policy to
the user’s preferences or to other standards such as the FTC’s
new FIP guidelines or the European directive on data protection.
5.3 The moral dimensions of information systems
-Ethical issues
Concerns the protection of intellectual property.
-Social issues
Most experts agree that current intellectual property laws are
breaking down in the information age.
-Political issues
concerns the creation of new property protection measures to
protect Investments.
5.3 The moral dimensions of information systems
- Social issues
The central liability-related social issue concerns the
expectations that society should allow to develop around
service-providing information systems.
- Political issues
The leading liability-related political issue is the debate between
information providers of all kinds, who want to be relieved of
liability as much as possible, and service users-individuals,
organizations, and communities-who want organizations to be
held responsible for providing high-quality system services.
5.3 The moral dimensions of information systems