Cyberethics – Chapter 41

Book: Cyberethics – Ethical Issues in Business Computing

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Quote:

“Essentially, computers are used in business to solve problems. An individual manager, focused on use of a computer for the task in hand, may understandably lack specialist awareness of wider ethical issues.” by Duncan Langford

What I expect to learn:

I expect to learn how computer become useful in a business.

Chapter Review:

Business, Legal and Ethical Issues is the first of the core subjects undertaken by Computer Professional Education Program (CPeP) students in their ongoing professional development. Professionalism is a risk management strategy and in this subject the emphasis is on applying professionalism in the business context.

Because of our new hi-tech technology, computer nowadays was very useful in many ways. It can also used in business. That is why there are so many businessmen that have the newest model of computer to use for their businesses.

On the other hand the ordinary data protection regime generally applies to non editorial activities performed by the media. Data protection supervisory authorities when applying data protection law recognize the particularity of the media both where a special legal regime exists and where it does not.

The effective extent of the derogations furthermore cannot be assessed in abstract terms but it is dependent on the overall structure of the data protection legislation in each given country. Clearly the extent of the derogations needed is dependent on the extent to which the substantive rules would effectively have a bearing on the activities of the media.

The differences as to the application of data protection law to the media may also be explained by changing perspectives both on the role of data protection law and on the use of information technology by the media. In the early days of data protection the attention tended to focus on large mainframe-based databases. In those days the media seemed hardly concerned by such rules and no derogations from them therefore seemed necessary. The shifting emphasis of data protection law towards the notion of processing and the extensive use of information technology by the media has fundamentally changed the situation.

What I learned:

I learned that all companies of whatever size, should consider their use of computer systems. If a policy on computer use has not already developed, it is not just sensible but essential that urgent consideration is given to the ways in which systems are currently being used.

Integrative Questions:

1.    What is the smallest scale of business computing?

2.    Here business organization is larger, what is it?

3.    At this level a business is large enough to employ a designated computer specialist, what is it?

4.    At this level there will be at least one team of computer specialist, what is it?

5.    What is used by business computer systems falls into two distinct and equally important?