What A Cio Should Do

Being a non-traditional student, I have the opportunity to attend school while also pursuing a career in Information Technology (IT). Within the field of IT there are many avenues to explore ethics depending on the type of business that is being supported, or what the technical specialty may be. For instance, if the business operates in a medical environment that treats patients, there are privacy concerns, and ethical standards that must be followed. The same can be said for the financial community, and education. While the breadth of Information Technology and the available specializations are vast, perhaps even more impressive are the amount of trust and ethical burden placed on the Information Technology professional.

Discuss how a Chief Information Officer (CIO) might handle ethical decision making using one or more of the theories presented in the week one reading material.

Online technologies are beneficial to the modern world. It can improve a person’s education, business, and helps in everyday life hassles. It has become an essential part of the way that people live and it is very likely that people would be a loss without it. In “Ethics and the New Genetics,” the Dalai Lama claims that to ethically use new technological advancements we need to develop a “moral compass”. Peter Singer, in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets,” discusses whether new technology and “openness” makes our lives better, or if the lack of privacy takes away the rights of individuals. Both authors discuss how technology is advancing very rapidly and can significantly have major pros and cons to society. The two authors, however, have different viewpoints in which how the society can determine when technology has become ethical. Dalai Lama is firm believer that technology is evolving so fast that ethics could hardly keep up with it. He addresses how people should have ethical standards when dealing with the internet. Thus, he is directly proving to us how he would want society to ethically determine when and how technology should be used. Yet, on another spectrum, Peter Singer argues that although ethically, internet is invading our privacy, this invasion of privacy is the only way that the public is safe and people should brutally discover the truth about everything but somehow it can cause harm. Peter Singer and Dalai Lama both agree how the new online

This past week’s course work was focused on privacy as it relates to ethics in information technology, privacy protection and key privacy issues. We have learned from our text, research and discussion board collaborations that an individual’s privacy is not fully protected from a legal perspective, that government and businesses must protect how data is saved and who is allowed to access educational, medical, or any personally identifiable information (PII) that can contribute to privacy and anonymity issues. That as an individual, we must take action in securing and protecting our PII to prevent malicious acts such as identity theft.

The opinions of the CIOs in regards to the survey conducted is better understood and justified by the duties and responsibility that CIO job entails. The CIO responsibilities are vast across a health care organization. They oversee obtaining HMIS technology and applications. That includes the process of acquiring the technology, assuring it is excepted and implemented through proper practices of adoption. The CIO must make sure the HMIS and the health care organizations key objective and goals are aligned. In addition to continuously developing ways to improve the efficiency of administration, and effectiveness and productivity of clinical operations through IT application. Including, maintaining a secure organizational data by assuring

The advances made in information technologies are causing an increasing number of ethical problems. The power used to processing computers doubles about every two years. Organizations are more dependent than ever before on their information systems. The Ethical problems arising from the appropriate use of customer information, personal privacy, and the protection of intellectual property have lead to increased laws to regulate the way data is collected. There are also privacy issues involved collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals.

In the case of Edward Snowden a former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, who was responsible for one of the most significant leaks in U.S history regarding NSA surveillance programs. During the years Snowden had worked for the NSA, he was exposed to invasive and disturbing practices that violate ones privacy. In this paper, I will argue that Edward Snowden was morally correct to blow the whistle on the NSA’s domestic surveillance practices.

In the 21st century, modern life is created and molded around technology. Your usual day of going to work, browsing the internet, calling a friend, or using GPS is technology’s gold mine of intel gathering on everything that was, is, or will be you. You are recorded through security cameras and captured through cell phone videos and imaging anywhere you go. Your cookies are traced and sent to advertisers and your phone calls are recorded from towers and archived. This has caused the argument that true privacy no longer exists, and it’s a sound one. History shows that citizens fought for privacy more vivaciously in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. However, since the boom of the digital era, people have been resigning themselves to the fact that their data and personal information will be seen, monitored, and used in exchange for security, convenience, and entertainment.

The advent of the technological revolution has fundamentally changed the access that citizens within a democracy have to sensitive and private information about governments, organisations, workplaces and fellow citizens. It is incumbent upon individuals to honour the privacy of this information. The protection of sensitive information is considered paramount, yet anyone with information that they feel is in the public interest and is faced with no avenues to make their concerns known is turning to the internet as a ‘platform for the swift dissemination of material and a layer of anonymity’ (Savage 2013) and this new era of what is known as whistleblowing has given rise to cyberethics.

The CIO’s role is very important in an organization. This job is broken into two different roles and organizations structures should understand and follow the guidelines. A CIO is a strategic planner as a primary roles and an executive as the other role. CIO often acts as a business leader and relationship builder. Power and control should always be allocated within an organization.

With the advent of mobile phones, iPad and other smart technology, accessing information across the web has become very easy. You can sit at home and pay your phone bills, or talk to someone from across the world. Along with these benefits, it has also become easier to get access to information that would otherwise be restricted. In recent years, debates have taken place regarding the concern of the privacy of information that is uploaded on the internet, or that is taken from it. This research paper aims at comparing the controversies that surround the concept of privacy in the digital age.

To say that computer professionals should be held solely responsible for moral or immoral practice in computer technology is a shortsighted argument, as users of computer technology are just as morally responsible. First, Gotterbarn is correct to say that computer professionals have a moral obligation to consider the possible negative outcomes of their advancements. However, to simply ignore the users of the technology would be highly unethical and irresonsible. To illustrate, consider the immense number of possible applications for computer technologies. Although computer professionals must do everything in their power to prevent negative side effects, accounting for every scenario would be a daunting, if not impossible, task. For example, the iPhone is an incredible general-purpose device capable of enriching its owner’s life. However, some of its basic functions can be used to harm others in an immeasurable number of ways. For instance, the camera can be used in locations where filming is illegal, such as a public washroom. Furthermore, computer technology has been integrated into almost every facet of life. From manufacturing to social media, there is an increasingly varied and numberous body of technology users. This only verifies that predicting the uses of technology is a tremendously difficult task. Finally, one might argue that if a computer professional develops a technology that has the capability to doharm, then he or she should rework their design. Yet if a

In the early years of computers and computerized technology, computer engineers had to believe that their contribution to the development of computer technology would produce positive impacts on the people that would use it. During the infancy of computer technology, ethical issues concerning computer technology were almost nonexistent because computers back then were not as multifaceted as they are today. However, ethical issues relating to computer technology and cyber technology is undeniable in today’s society. Computer technology plays a crucial role in all aspects of our daily lives. Different forms of computer technology provide unique functionalities that allow people to perform daily activities effectively and efficiently. In

In a world where technology is rapidly advancing and becoming intertwined with the daily happenings of an individual, a question arises concerning the ethics behind how the government uses this technology for surveillance and security. Whether the nation knows it or not, every phone call, text message, email, and even social media posts are collected and analyzed by the government. As a result of this collection of data, there is a growing concern for the issue of privacy with such a widespread form of surveillance, as a great number of individuals feel that they are experiencing a severe infringement on rights that they had previously considered impenetrable. Although individuals tend to see tactics used by the government as an infringement on one's rights and an invasion of privacy, these tactics and regulations can also be seen as ways to protect the nation and simplify the lives of others.

A. Ethics is the collection of moral principles that controls the actions of an individual or a group. And managing the use of computers can be done by computer ethics which is set of moral principles that controls the usage of computers. Here in computer ethics we can find some common issues which contains privacy concerns, copyrighted electronic content and how the society is been affected by computers. Let us understand in brief about computer ethics by illustrating with an example that is approaching or entering into someone’s personal details or particulars though it may be attainable on a computer system but, according to computer ethics it would suggest that such an action is completely wrong.