Ethical Violations in Computer Use
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The personal computer has become a near necessity in modern society, and business and government have also become dependent on the computer for all manner of operations and functioning. With new opportunities come new dangers, and there are concerns today both for ethical violations in computer use and crime making use of the power of the computer. Ethics is the art of doing what is right in a societal context, and the computer user is part of such a context in the virtual world, or the world of cyberspace. Computer ethics includes everything from proper online etiquette to respect for the privacy of others. Computer crime may take place through overt theft, confidence games, and new electronic means of capturing data, creating viruses that destroy other computers, and crimes not even thought of yet. Fighting computer crime requires a law enforcement community that is computer literate and constantly on the watch for criminal activity and new crimes. It also requires a legislature willing to change existing laws to match new capabilities. Computers today are part of our lives in ways we often do not even notice, not only in the more obvious personal computers we use at home and the larger computers we may use in such places as banks and libraries, but also in computer technology that is found in home appliances such as television sets, coffee makers, microwave ovens, videocassette recorders, and hand calculators, not to mention toys and games.
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mation about the individual's personal life so that the individual was slowly losing control over his or her personal information. This problem of the danger of invasion of privacy has been foreseen for some time. The keeping of records is hardly a new activity, but computers have changed record-keeping activities in several ways: 1) they have made possible a new scale of information gathering; 2) they have made possible new kinds of information; 3) they have made possible a new scale of information distribution; 4) the effect of erroneous information can be magnified; and 5) information about events in one's life may remain on one's record for life (Johnson, 1994, 87).
Probably the first concern raised in terms of the concern for information privacy in the computer age was that the government would be the entity to commit a breach of privacy, and it is true that the government today has far more information on each citizen than it ever had in the past and could have access to far more in various private computer systems across the country. In the past, most governmental decisions concerning individual citizens in such areas as taxes, law enforcement, student loans, and social Security benefits were based on personal knowledge
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