With increased use of computers in our daily

lives, all this has affected our lives both in the

home and at work, in numerous ways. Our work
patterns have changed, our life styles have
changed etc. At one side, computers have created
new careers, while at other side many ethical and
other issues have cropped up.
 Information technology is the technology used to store,
manipulate, distribute or create information.
Kathleen Guinee wrote, "By information technology, I mean
the tools we use to perform calculations, to store and
manipulate text, and to communicate. Some of these
twentieth century tools include: the adding machine, slide
rule, and calculator for performing calculations, the
typewriter and word processor for processing text, and the
telephone, radio, and television for communicating."
Computer ethics refer to the ways of thinking
and behaviour of computer users in situations
where a choice can affect the dignity and well
being of others.

Major ETHICAL ISSUES are:

Plagiarism
Individual’s Right to Privacy
Intellectual Property Rights
Accuracy of Information
 Computers have influenced the life of
humans. On each individual, computers
have left an impact. In each sector
computers have now become a necessity.
For doing small work or any big work
computers are used now. Computers here
refers to INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
i.e. IT.
As computers have influenced our life, our
work, our living style and pattern we can
assume that computers or IT have
influenced our society. With the arrival of
new era, everything has changed. Our
society is most affected by it. New jobs
have come up, business has grown, every
thing is influenced. Life has become much
more easy. ALL THANKS TO……………
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
 The word Plagiarism comes
from a Latin word for
Kidnapping. It means stealing
someone’s ideas or writings.
Plagiarism is use of words or
ideas of others and present
them as your own creation.
We must follow these guidelines:

Clearly know about what is plagiarism

Properly acknowledge the sources of
information
Acknowledge all types of sources
Be careful while incorporating work of
others
Individual’s Right to Privacy in context of
computing and information pertain to
these:

Collecting information
Storing information
Distributing information
 Intellectual property rights are
the rights of owner of
information to decide how much
information to be exchanged,
shared or distributed. Also it
gives the owner a right to decide
the price for doing so.
 The ethical issues involved
here is that the information
owner should make available
the authentic, authorized and
accurate information to it’s
purchaser.
 Hacking refers to gain
information from otherwise
undisclosed areas.

Piracy refers to the

unauthorized duplication of
computer software.
Common forms of Software Piracy are:

Softlifing
Uploading & Downloading
Software Counterfeiting
Hard Disk Loading
Renting
Copyright is the exclusive property right of the owner
of a work, granted by law.

Patent refers to special power of monopoly granted by

law.

Trademark refers to registered word/text/logo

depicting the identity of a product, work or a
company.
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