Ethics in Information Technology :: Technology Ethics

Ethics in Information TechnologyTechnology DepartmentTechnology is in m whatever ways very dependable to our society, but in what ways can and/or volition this fast growing business be un honest. This article explains the power and information that an IT personnel has in the business world. Most people think of the IT person as slightlyone who comes to fix their computer when they cant figure out their e-mail. But what does an IT person have feeler to. Every business is different and has different responsibilities required for the IT personnel. This article explains how most companies use the IT department for monitoring their employees on the computer. The article raises many questions on the ethical behaviors of IT personnel, but it doesnt give many answers. Thats because the question of Is it ethical? must be answered by each individual IT professional. In other professional careers such as Medicine or Law that have been around for a long time have a set of laws or co de of ethics that goes along with the job. This field has yet to establish such rules. The article states that most ethical issues such as reading the employee e-mails and changing words, using key loggers to obtain everything a specific person has typed, or screen capture programs to monitor everything they have looked at, have not even been confronted by law, nor is there a standard that any IT professional has to follow.Its scary to think how much power and information that an IT professional have access to, and the fact that there are no laws that prohibit some of the procedures they is also a frightening thought. Even at Southwestern Assemblies of God University the IT people have access to our social security number, web pages we visit, and even our lucre passwords like e-mail or student login. If the IT professional are hired and have no prior discretion of ethical issues how can we trust what they will do with the information they have about us. I trust that the employe rs at Southwestern have chosen the right people for the job, but what the everyday spatial relation of America. The article states that some of the IT professionals even help employees to get others fired. An example of this would be At this particular business the IT department receives all the e-mails to be screened before they leave to the recipient.