International, National, and Industry-Specific Regulations
Modern information systems can raise various legal and ethical issues in addition to those associated with intellectual property. After reading the selection, what are some of the most significant ethical challenges that professionals using and developing BI systems should consider? How do these ethical issues translate into specific laws and regulations? Is the legal structure keeping up with the development of new technology?
Information Systems and Intellectual Property
The rise of information systems has resulted in rethinking
how to deal with intellectual property. From the increase in
patent applications swamping the government's patent office to
the new laws that must be put in place to enforce copyright
protection, digital technologies have impacted our behavior.
Privacy
The term privacy has many definitions, but for purposes here,
privacy will mean the ability to control information about oneself.
The ability to maintain our privacy has eroded substantially in the
past decades, due to information systems.