Privacy and ICT

Running Head : RESEARCH REPORT : ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO PRIVACY AND ICT

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March 29 , 2009

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Introduction .2

Research question .2

Personal information .2

3 .1 . Safeguard of privacy .3

4 .0 Non-personal information .3

4 .1 . Privacy principles .4

5 .0 Intellectual property rights .5

5 .1 Copyrights .5

5 .2 Trademarks .6

6 .0 Software licensing .7

7 .0 Unauthorized

access .7

8 .0 Indecent and deceitful materials .8

9 .0 Spam .8

10 .0 Conclusion .9

Reference list .10

1 .0 Introduction

The internet is unregulated and uncensored hence anybody who has an e-mail address is able to distribute information widely and rapidly and the evaluation of the web page material /content distributed is questionable . The responsibility for the accuracy of the web page information rest with the creator but this obligation has often been breached and has resulted in many socially unethical issues hence in the recent years this issues have become very important as related to research and technology

2 .0 Research question

The European Union parliament decision states that research activities supported by the framework programs should respect the fundamental ethical principles [Computer and Information Technology for HKCEE (Core Module )] . This presentation therefore discusses the ethical issues related to privacy and ICT

3 .0 Personal information

Chrisanthi Avgerou explains in her book referred to as The Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society (Computers and Society Handbook ) that companies should be committed to...