Homework
As the world continues to become and transitions to digital or information oriented, several ethical issues arise. Some of these issues are issues associated with the information age ethics faced by all people using information technology. The four ethical issues revolve around privacy, accountability, property, and accessibility. With the information technology, allowing everybody to share information to anybody across the world instantly is a new experience in the world of digital age. These ethical issues continue to present in different magnitudes from the earlier information age.
In the digital age, privacy is considered dead. It is hard to maintain privacy on any kind of information. Many see it as a fast sinking boat. It seems that more advent of information technology is attacking on the private lives of people. There is no limit to what private information can be posted or leaked to others. Through technology such as video chatting as well as voice chatting, one can have even the most private information about a person such as what they are doing at the moment, and even where they are. This eliminates privacy, and the person can upload any information about them or even have any information about people. This has become a much-debated issue in the digital age. Level of information technology has enabled surveillance of people, such as companies can conduct surveillance of buying habits of people in order to modify their goods to their needs. This requires surveillance of what customers use most of the time, where they buy it and when, which amounts to infringement of privacy. This is driven by need for information to make decisions. Thus, companies go beyond all barriers to get the information they need.
Accuracy in the digital age is not certain considering one cannot be sure who is uploading the information. Currently, many people and organizations are drawing away from use of hand record to computer records. With computer records, duplication and manipulation is very easy since it is just a matter of keying in information. There is no proving that what is stored electronically is accurate. In addition, the computer usage does not guarantee accuracy since it uses human input as the command. Thus, accuracy will be dependent on the person. However, in case the computer fails, this could trigger even loss of information.
The third issue that evokes ethical thought is the property issues. This has been an ethical concern as to who owns what in the information age. In the digital age, any intellectual property is easily reproduced and availed to many through the internet. This leaves owners of the property unknown. Worst still, they would not determine who infringed their property rights due to anonymity in the internet. Copying any information is easy over the internet, which is subject to property infringement. In addition, this property can be used by many people who may not have authority from the owner, which amounts to the same.
Finally, access is another issue in the digital ethical issues that continues to stir up different concerns. Access determines whom has right to view information from whom and what information they are allowed viewing. In the digital age, many people may have access to information they are not authorized to hold. In the current digital age with social networks people can access any information about people from anywhere in the world. Exchange of information is quite advanced in the digital age, with people exchanging information in many ways including blogs and responding to questions posed online. Unlike the earlier ages when one would need to purchase a book to read it, it can be accessed trough the internet, and even a person with the book can provide it to another trough scanning it for them. Thus, the ability of anybody to upload information online from anywhere allows accessibility to a wide majority who might not even deserve it.
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