In this report I will
be analysing about ethics and how it would affect company s as well as if these
organisations have the right to keep us under camera all the time. The word
ethics means the moral principles that a person behaves under. This means that
if someone was to have good ethics towards homeless people then they would help
that homeless person by giving them some money or something like that. This
would also apply to organisations/companies. It is important for organisations
to consider ethics when dealing with people information as it would mean that
they would need to be considerate about that persons information or not and
releasing that information as well as just letting people gain that
information. If a company was to have bad ethics then they would let that person’s
information just slip by and let other organisation gain that information.
Freedom of
information is a law that allows general public people access to data help by
the government. An advantage of this law to a company would be that they could
train their employs on how these laws work and what kind of information they
should give out and what they should not, For an example of someone was to ask
an employ of that company about some information and that employ told them a
bit too much then they would be in some trouble. This would also affect the IT
security as people might be able to gain more information than they are allowed
and might leak that information out to the public. This links to ethics as in
the phone scandal it was able to be under covered because of Freedom of
Information, this is good as it would mean that the people know where their
money is going.
Personal privacy is
the control of what kind of information you are combatable to send out over the
internet and to other people. This could benefit a company as they would have
access to their employer’s information however as the privacy act would state
that the company do not have the right to share that information to any other
organisation as well as anyone in any other form unless it was said to be ok by
the person her/himself. A disadvantage would be that people do not have as much
security as they would think as almost everything we do on the internet is
track and people could easily take out information and use it to get our credit
card numbers as well as where we live and where we work. So people’s
information is not always safe, this would also apply to companies as people
would be able to gain access to company information through the freedom of
information act.
Permission through
the use of CCTV, video and photo is an legal act as this would go under the
stalker and harassment act meaning that you are keeping track on a person’s
information and all the things that they do not matter where they are. However
if it is for “security” then it seems to be fine or if it is run by the police
or government. This would relate to ethics issues as this might have a bad
ethic on the government as people might see them as not giving people there
privacy, this might also apply to the company Google the reason for their
Google maps and its street view. By this I mean people who getting their
information and faces on their street view which would mean that the company
would be reasoning people information without that person finding out.
The ethics of a
company should be considered on any act that they do as it would be important
for the company to do something really useful as it would mean that a company
isn’t acting blindly and just acting to their own accord. This would also have
the effect on an organisation as it would have to deal with a lot of their
issues if it had a wrong type of ethics.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/stalking_and_harassment/#a01
